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Re:BM25 – The Next Generation of Lucene Relevance by apatry on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:14PM (#11279902)
BM25 has been available for Lucene since version 4 thanks to a refactoring that allowed anyone to plug in a custom relevance score if I remember correctly . The big news is that starting version 6, BM25 is the default.
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Re:BM25 – The Next Generation of Lucene Relevance by asjo on Monday March 14, 2016 @12:37AM (#11281100)
Yes, so I am asking why is Lucene switching now?
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