Samir: This is a FAQ:
http://lucene.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/faq/faqmanager.cgi?file=chapter.search&toc=faq#q31 which you can get to by going to the main Lucene page, following the official FAQ link, and looking under "Searching". Joshua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician, Philosopher-At-Tall It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill Watterson My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any organization. On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Samir Satam wrote: > Thank you Brandon, That surely is what seems to be happening... Does > anybody know the algorithm lucene uses to calculate hit score? > > thanks again, > samir > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brandon Jockman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 12:18 PM > To: Lucene Users List > Subject: Re: LIFO or FIFO?? > > > Samir, > > I think its more likely that the more recently indexed articles had a higher > 'score' and thus were displayed first in results. Hits are ranked based on > an algorithm (see FAQ). You should printout the 'score' for each document > hit and see that the first results displayed actually had a higher score > than the older ones. I don't think FIFO/LIFO have anything to do with it... > Look at the scoring algorithm; then try searching for things that should > have a higher score in the older documents and see if they come up higher in > your results. > > Hope that helps, > > -Brandon > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Samir Satam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:03 AM > Subject: LIFO or FIFO?? > > > > Hello, > > I am new to Lucene, and during my development, I observed that... > > > > the articles indexed last were the articles that were returned first, in > the results. As if the index was a LIFO. Now this is perfectly acceptable as > long as we need to get the latest documents. (articles on WSJ published > today were indexed today, nad hence are more recent and more relevant). But > I also have to index the older articles. So, I have 2 questions... > > 1. Is my observation correct? > > 2. I was wondering if anybody had similar problems, and how did they fix > it? > > > > > > thanks > > Samir > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
