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package org.apache.lucene.search.similarities;


import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation;

Normalization model that assumes a uniform distribution of the term frequency.

While this model is parameterless in the original article, information-based models (see IBSimilarity) introduced a multiplying factor. The default value for the c parameter is 1.

@lucene.experimental
/** * Normalization model that assumes a uniform distribution of the term frequency. * <p>While this model is parameterless in the * <a href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.101.742"> * original article</a>, <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1835490"> * information-based models</a> (see {@link IBSimilarity}) introduced a * multiplying factor. * The default value for the {@code c} parameter is {@code 1}.</p> * @lucene.experimental */
public class NormalizationH1 extends Normalization { private final float c;
Creates NormalizationH1 with the supplied parameter c.
Params:
  • c – hyper-parameter that controls the term frequency normalization with respect to the document length.
/** * Creates NormalizationH1 with the supplied parameter <code>c</code>. * @param c hyper-parameter that controls the term frequency * normalization with respect to the document length. */
public NormalizationH1(float c) { // unbounded but typical range 0..10 or so if (Float.isFinite(c) == false || c < 0) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("illegal c value: " + c + ", must be a non-negative finite value"); } this.c = c; } /** * Calls {@link #NormalizationH1(float) NormalizationH1(1)} */ public NormalizationH1() { this(1); } @Override public final double tfn(BasicStats stats, double tf, double len) { return tf * c * (stats.getAvgFieldLength() / len); } @Override public Explanation explain(BasicStats stats, double tf, double len) { return Explanation.match( (float) tfn(stats, tf, len), getClass().getSimpleName() + ", computed as tf * c * (avgfl / fl) from:", Explanation.match((float) tf, "tf, number of occurrences of term in the document"), Explanation.match(c, "c, hyper-parameter"), Explanation.match((float) stats.getAvgFieldLength(), "avgfl, average length of field across all documents"), Explanation.match((float) len, "fl, field length of the document")); } @Override public String toString() { return "1"; }
Returns the c parameter.
See Also:
  • NormalizationH1(float)
/** * Returns the <code>c</code> parameter. * @see #NormalizationH1(float) */
public float getC() { return c; } }