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Computer Science

intermediate

BM25: How Lexical Relevance Is Actually Computed

Matching finds candidates; scoring orders them, and the ordering is the product. This lesson builds BM25, the default ranking function of Lucene, Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, from its three ingredients: rare terms count more, repeated terms saturate, and long documents get discounted. With the formula, the two tuning knobs, and the saturation curve computed by hand.

7 steps·~11 min

BM25: How Lexical Relevance Is Actually Computed

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