Re: How to do relevancy ranking in lucene

2009-12-04 Thread Erick Erickson
> > > From: Erick Erickson > Subject: Re: How to do relevancy ranking in lucene > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Thursday, 3 December, 2009, 1:39 PM > > > I don't really understand your goal here. Lucene already does this with > it's relevancy rankin

Re: How to do relevancy ranking in lucene

2009-12-03 Thread DHIVYA M
: How to do relevancy ranking in lucene To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Date: Thursday, 3 December, 2009, 1:39 PM I don't really understand your goal here. Lucene already does this with it's relevancy ranking. By definition, it calculates a score for each document and ranks them in or

Re: How to do relevancy ranking in lucene

2009-12-03 Thread Erick Erickson
I don't really understand your goal here. Lucene already does this with it's relevancy ranking. By definition, it calculates a score for each document and ranks them in order of the score. This is NOT a simple "is the word in the document or not" You can read about the scoring algorithm here: