Re: Multiple Query clauses impacting result

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Hostetter
: So in a business scenario where we have to make a decision based on the : "accepted" matching of a document (say perform activity A only when a : document matches more than 50%), we wont be able to rely on the match score : because the score will change based on our query and some times 80% matc

Re: Multiple Query clauses impacting result

2011-08-03 Thread Saurabh Gokhale
Hi Uwe, Thanks for clarifying and the link given by you does have a satisfactory explanation. So in a business scenario where we have to make a decision based on the "accepted" matching of a document (say perform activity A only when a document matches more than 50%), we wont be able to rely on t

RE: Multiple Query clauses impacting result

2011-08-02 Thread Uwe Schindler
Hi Saurabh, There is nothing wrong with Lucene, the problem is generally that you try to see scores as percentages, which they aren't. Scores are arbitrary values, only used for sorting search results, but never to compare results between different queries. It's in fact easy possible to also ge