On Thursday 29 April 2004 20:09, Matthew W. Bilotti wrote: I can't help you with your first question about coordination of disjunctions in conjunctions.
Actually, I would like to have the possibility to provide all terms in an OR query with the same idf weight, eg. some avarage of their IDF's, to reflect that they have the same importance in the query. But that is a slightly different subject. ... > PS: Is it now possible by any chance to merge documents retrieved by two > Lucene queries by score, owing perhaps to the queryNorm factor? Just > curious. That's what the query norm is for. The best comparisons are between queries that differ only in term weights. But the default scoring method is complex enough to lead to surprises when queries are more different. Regards, Ype --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
