I wound up using a TopDocs instead, which has a getMaxScore that
I was able to use to normalize scores to between 0 and 1. In my case
I was collapsing the results into quintiles, so I threw them all
back into a FieldSortedHitQueue to get them sorted by secondary
criteria once the scores were all one of 5 discrete values....
Erick
On 3/29/07, Antony Bowesman <adb@teamware.com> wrote:
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> Hits will normalise scores >0<=1, but I'm using HitCollector and haven't
> worked
> out how to normalise those scores.
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> From what I can see, the scores are just multiplied by a factor to bring
> the
> top score down to 1. Is this right or is there something more to it.
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> Do I need to normalise scores anyway - what's the reason it's done?
> Antony
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