Thanks!  Is there any way to extend the Similarity class to overwrite the
behavior (e.g.,  using the max idf instead of the sum of each term idfs)?


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:11 PM, David Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > However, in some case,  when I search o'reilly ,  I see
> >
> >  *  44.0865 = idf(title: o''reilli=4 o=1488 reilli=14 oreilli=4)*
> >
> > In this cae, How is IDF calculated?
> >
>
> thats a phrase or multiphrase query.
>
> in this case it sums up the idf of each term:
>
> http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_4_0/api/all/org/apache/lucene/search/Similarity.html#idfExplain(java.util.Collection
> ,
> org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher)
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