By the way, Tao, why do you want/need normalized scores? "score values are meaningful only for purposes of comparison between other documents for the exact same query and the exact same index. when you try to compute a percentage, you are setting up an implicit comparison with scores from other queries." -- http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ScoresAsPercentages
So, perhaps, we should just keep it as it is and return to the users scores as we get them from Lucene (i.e. not normalized). What do you think? I imagine people would use scores for sorting results and/or find the highest match. Tao, are you using the scores for something else? Paolo Paolo Castagna wrote: > Tao wrote: >> Hi Paolo, >> >> Just noticed some change in the LARQ score. Originally the score seemed to >> be normalized to range [0, 1]. Now the score can be higher than 1. Is this a >> change of Lucene or LARQ? >> >> How can I get the old good [0, 1] LARQ score now? >> >> Thanks >> Tao > > Hi Tao, > first of all, thanks. > > I see... LARQ is now using Lucene 3.x and something might have changed there > or > something went wrong while porting LARQ over Lucene 3.x new APIs. > > Do you want to raise a JIRA issue for this? > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA > > The good news is that it should not be that difficult to fix and if you want > you > can try submitting a patch for this. > > All searches call the IndexLARQ.search(...) [1] method which does something > like > this (reformatted): > > TopDocs topDocs = ... > Map1<ScoreDoc,HitLARQ> converter = new Map1<ScoreDoc,HitLARQ>(){ > public HitLARQ map1(ScoreDoc object) { > return new HitLARQ(searcher, object) ; > }} ; > Iterator<ScoreDoc> iterScoreDoc = > Arrays.asList(topDocs.scoreDocs).iterator() ; > Iterator<HitLARQ> iter = > new Map1Iterator<ScoreDoc, HitLARQ>(converter, iterScoreDoc) ; > return iter ; > > There is a getMaxScore method in Lucene's TopDocs [2] which we can use to > normalize scores for the same query. > > Paolo > > [1] > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jena/Jena2/LARQ/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/larq/IndexLARQ.java > [2] > http://lucene.apache.org/core/old_versioned_docs/versions/3_5_0/api/core/org/apache/lucene/search/TopDocs.html#getMaxScore%28%29
