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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:48:17 +0000
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Subject: Re: How disabling norms on a field effects other fields
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On 06/03/2012 21:44, Paul Taylor wrote:
> I have a number of fields that either only ever have a term frequency 
> of 1 or I don't want them to be disavantaged if they do have a greater 
> term frequency, and I never boost the field so I disable norms for 
> these fields with Field.Index.ANALYZED_NO_NORM or 
> Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED_NO_NORM.
>
> But  if I'm searching using two fields
>
> i.e
>
> a:term1 OR b:term2
>
> and A has norms enabled and B doesn't, doesnt't that mean  that 
> documents that match B are more likely to score better than documents 
> that match A because when the score for a document matching just A 
> will end up with a lower score in the weight = tf * idf * fieldnorm 
> calculation.
>
> Thats not what I wanted,  I just wanted a document matching on field B 
> which contained three terms to score as well as a match on a document 
> field B with one term
>
> Have I understood this right, if so what the solution ?
>
Sorry , quick correction when I say Term Frequency I don't mean tf (i.e 
matching terms), I just mean Number of Terms in the Field

Paul

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