Re: How to normalize Lucene scores... (over all queries)

2011-03-22 Thread Erick Erickson
You can't. If by "normalize" you mean compare the scores between two different queries, it's meaningless. The scores from one query to another are not comparable. If by "normalize" you mean make into a value between 0 and 1, anywhere you have access to raw scores I believe you also have access to

How to normalize Lucene scores... (over all queries)

2011-03-21 Thread Patrick Diviacco
I'm combining several scores for my queries performed with Lucene and other software. My issue is that I have lucene scores + other scores (not related to Lucene) for each query result. The other scores are all normalized between 1 and 0. I need to normalize Lucene scores (over all queries) beca