[Xapian-discuss] How term distance impacts the weight?

[Bruce Zhang]

Hey,

I start using Xapian for more than 1 months, it is very nice.

When I look at the weight, I saw that each term will be associated with
position.in doc

I wonder how position used in query? how it impacts the weight of search?
could anyone shed light on this?

Can I understand that position is more useful for Oriental language like
Chinese, Japanese Korean than for Western Languages,
because Oriental language need word segmentation?

thanks,
Bruce