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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:16:03 -0800 (PST)
From: "Michael McCandless (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1534) idf(t) is not actually squared
 during scoring?
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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1534:
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bq. But if we feel that over-emphasizes terms with large idfs, then we should not remove an idf factor from one vector, but rather rework our weight heuristic, perhaps replacing idf with sqrt(idf), no?

I agree, that should be the approach if we decide idf^2 is too much, but I don't have an opinion (yet!) on whether it's too much (but that thread referenced above is nonetheless interesting).


> idf(t) is not actually squared during scoring?
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1534
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1534
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Query/Scoring
>    Affects Versions: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.4
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.9
>
>
> The javadocs for Similarity:
>   http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/search/Similarity.html
> show idf(t) as being squared when computing net query score.  But I
> don't think it is actually squared, in looking at the sources?  Maybe
> it used to be, eg this interesting discussion:
>   http://markmail.org/message/k5pl7scmiac5wosb
> Or am I missing something?  We just need to fix the javadocs to take
> away the "squared"...

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