Package org.apache.lucene.search.similarities

Class ClassicSimilarity

java.lang.Object

org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.Similarity

org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.TFIDFSimilarity

org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.ClassicSimilarity

public class ClassicSimilarity
extends TFIDFSimilarity

Expert: Historical scoring implementation. You might want to consider using BM25Similarity instead, which is generally considered superior to TF-IDF.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.Similarity

Similarity.SimScorer

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.TFIDFSimilarity

discountOverlaps

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ClassicSimilarity()	Sole constructor: parameter-free

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
float	idf(long docFreq, long docCount)	Implemented as log((docCount+1)/(docFreq+1)) + 1.
Explanation	idfExplain(CollectionStatistics collectionStats, TermStatistics termStats)	Computes a score factor for a simple term and returns an explanation for that score factor.
float	lengthNorm(int numTerms)	Implemented as 1/sqrt(length).
float	tf(float freq)	Implemented as sqrt(freq).
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.TFIDFSimilarity

computeNorm, getDiscountOverlaps, idfExplain, scorer, setDiscountOverlaps

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ClassicSimilarity

public ClassicSimilarity()

Sole constructor: parameter-free

Method Detail

lengthNorm

public float lengthNorm(int numTerms)

Implemented as 1/sqrt(length).

Specified by:

lengthNorm in class TFIDFSimilarity

Parameters:

numTerms - the number of terms in the field, optionally discounting overlaps

Returns:

a length normalization value

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

tf

public float tf(float freq)

Implemented as sqrt(freq).

Specified by:

tf in class TFIDFSimilarity

Parameters:

freq - the frequency of a term within a document

Returns:

a score factor based on a term's within-document frequency

idfExplain

public Explanation idfExplain(CollectionStatistics collectionStats,
                              TermStatistics termStats)

Description copied from class: TFIDFSimilarity

Computes a score factor for a simple term and returns an explanation for that score factor.

The default implementation uses:

 idf(docFreq, docCount);
 

Note that CollectionStatistics.docCount() is used instead of IndexReader#numDocs() because also TermStatistics.docFreq() is used, and when the latter is inaccurate, so is CollectionStatistics.docCount(), and in the same direction. In addition, CollectionStatistics.docCount() does not skew when fields are sparse.

Overrides:

idfExplain in class TFIDFSimilarity

Parameters:

collectionStats - collection-level statistics

termStats - term-level statistics for the term

Returns:

an Explain object that includes both an idf score factor and an explanation for the term.

idf

public float idf(long docFreq,
                 long docCount)

Implemented as log((docCount+1)/(docFreq+1)) + 1.

Specified by:

idf in class TFIDFSimilarity

Parameters:

docFreq - the number of documents which contain the term

docCount - the total number of documents in the collection

Returns:

a score factor based on the term's document frequency

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object