You are calling the explain method incorrectly. You need something like
System.out.println(indexSearcher.explain(query, 0));
See the javadocs for details.
--
Ian.
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:39 AM, manjula wijewickrema
<manjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Grant,
>
> Thanks a lot for your guidence. As you have mentioned, I tried to use
> explain() method to get the explanations for relevant scoring. But, once I
> call the explain() method, system indicated the following error.
>
> Error-
> 'The method explain(Query,int) in the type Searcher is not applicable for
> the arguments (String, int)'.
>
> In my code I call the explain() method as follows-
> Searcher.explain("rice",0);
>
> Possibly the wrong with my way of passing parameters. In my case, I have
> chosen "rice" as my query and indexed only one document.
>
> Could you pls. let me know what's wrong with this. I also included the code
> with this.
>
> Thanx
> Manjula
>
> code-
> **
>
> *import* org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher;
>
> *public* *class* LuceneDemo {
>
> *public* *static* *final* String *FILES_TO_INDEX_DIRECTORY* = "filesToIndex"
> ;
>
> *public* *static* *final* String *INDEX_DIRECTORY* = "indexDirectory";
>
> *public* *static* *final* String *FIELD_PATH* = "path";
>
> *public* *static* *final* String *FIELD_CONTENTS* = "contents";
>
> *public* *static* *void* main(String[] args) *throws* Exception {
>
> *createIndex*();
>
> *searchIndex*("rice");
>
> }
>
> *public* *static* *void* createIndex() *throws* CorruptIndexException,
> LockObtainFailedException, IOException {
>
> SnowballAnalyzer analyzer = *new* SnowballAnalyzer( "English",
> StopAnalyzer.ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS);
>
> *boolean* recreateIndexIfExists = *true*;
>
> IndexWriter indexWriter = *new* IndexWriter(*INDEX_DIRECTORY*, analyzer,
> recreateIndexIfExists);
>
> File dir = *new* File(*FILES_TO_INDEX_DIRECTORY*);
>
> File[] files = dir.listFiles();
>
> *for* (File file : files) {
>
> Document document = *new* Document();
>
> String path = file.getCanonicalPath();
>
> document.add(*new* Field(*FIELD_PATH*, path, Field.Store.*YES*, Field.Index.
> UN_TOKENIZED,Field.TermVector.*YES*));
>
> Reader reader = *new* FileReader(file);
>
> document.add(*new* Field(*FIELD_CONTENTS*, reader));
>
> indexWriter.addDocument(document);
>
> }
>
> indexWriter.optimize();
>
> indexWriter.close();
>
> }
>
> *public* *static* *void* searchIndex(String searchString)
> *throws*IOException, ParseException {
>
> System.*out*.println("Searching for '" + searchString + "'");
>
> Directory directory = FSDirectory.getDirectory(*INDEX_DIRECTORY*);
>
> IndexReader indexReader = IndexReader.open(directory);
>
> IndexSearcher indexSearcher = *new* IndexSearcher(indexReader);
>
> SnowballAnalyzer analyzer = *new* SnowballAnalyzer( "English",
> StopAnalyzer.ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS);
>
> QueryParser queryParser = *new* QueryParser(*FIELD_CONTENTS*, analyzer);
>
> Query query = queryParser.parse(searchString);
>
> Hits hits = indexSearcher.search(query);
>
> System.*out*.println("Number of hits: " + hits.length());
>
> TopDocs results = indexSearcher.search(query,10);
>
> ScoreDoc[] hits1 = results.scoreDocs;
>
> *for* (ScoreDoc hit : hits1) {
>
> Document doc = indexSearcher.doc(hit.doc);
>
> //System.out.printf("%5.3f %s\n",hit.score,doc.get(FIELD_CONTENTS));
>
> System.*out*.println(hit.score);
>
> Searcher.explain("rice",0);
>
> }
>
> Iterator<Hit> it = hits.iterator();
>
> *while* (it.hasNext()) {
>
> Hit hit = it.next();
>
> Document document = hit.getDocument();
>
> String path = document.get(*FIELD_PATH*);
>
> System.*out*.println("Hit: " + path);
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2010, at 5:02 AM, manjula wijewickrema wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > In my application, I input only single term query (at one time) and get
>> back
>> > the corresponding scorings for those queries. But I am little struggling
>> of
>> > understanding Lucene scoring. I have reffered
>> >
>> http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/search/Similarity.html
>> > and
>> > some other pages to resolve my matters. But some are still remain.
>> >
>> > 1) Why it has taken the squareroot of frequency as the tf value and
>> square
>> > of the idf vale in score function?
>>
>> Somewhat arbitrary, I suppose, but I think someone way back did some tests
>> and decided it performed "best" in general. More importantly, the point of
>> the Similarity class is you can override these if you desire.
>>
>> >
>> > 2) If I enter single term query, then what will return bythe coord(q,d)?
>> > Since there are always one term in the query, I think always it should be
>> 1!
>> > Am I correct?
>>
>> Should be. You can run the explain() method to confirm.
>>
>> >
>> > 3) I am also struggling understanding sumOfSquaredWeights (in
>> queryNorm(q)).
>> > As I can understand, this value depends on the nature of the query we
>> input
>> > and depends on that, it uses different methods such as TermQuery,
>> > MultiTermQuery, BooleanQuery, WildcardQuery, PhraseQuery, PrefixQuery,
>> etc.
>> > But if I always use single term query, then what will be the way selected
>> by
>> > the system from above?
>>
>> The queryNorm is an attempt at making scores comparable across queries.
>> Again, I'd try the explain() method to see the practical aspects of how it
>> effects score.
>>
>> See http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/scoring.html for more info on
>> scoring.
>>
>> -Grant
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