[Xapian-discuss] scoring question

Alexander Lind malte at webstay.org
Wed Mar 21 18:39:34 GMT 2007


> Yes, I think that would cause all the documents to get the same weight.
>   
I can confirm that it does :p
> I've wondered before if wdf should be forced to always be at least one,
> but it's perhaps useful to be able to add boolean terms without
> affecting the document length.
>   
Maybe make it 1 by default, but possible to set to 0 explicitly?

>> I'll see if I can figure out what I have done wrong before bothering you 
>> anymore. Probably something in my indexing script.
>>     
>
> If it isn't pilot error, do let us know.
>   
Pilot error it was. I had a boost factor variable, which always got set 
to 0, effectively zero:ing the wdf argument for all documents.
Fixed now and working like a charm again.

Alec
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
>   


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