Elastic/OpenSearch
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This advanced explanation details each keyword-field match identified by the search engine. For each keyword-field match, there is a score and the other factors listed. These keyword-field matches can be filtered by keyword or field name for simplified viewing.
Advanced Explanation
| Factor | Definition |
|---|---|
| Boost Result | A multiplier applied to a field or term to increase its importance to the final score, which significantly influences the overall relevance score of a document for a given query. |
| IDF Result | Inverse document frequency, measure of how often the term appears across the index |
| Doc Count | Number of documents containing the term |
| Doc Frequency | Measures how often the term appears across the index |
| TF Result | Term frequency result, a normalized score that represents how often a term appears in a document, taking into account the document's length and other factors. This normalized score is to ensure that differences in document length are accounted for when determining the importance of a terms' frequency. |
| Term Frequency | Measures how often a term appears in the document. This sis an unnormalized measure of term importance. |
| k1 | Term saturation parameter |
| b | Length normalization parameter |
| Field Length | Length of field |
| Avg Field Length | Average length of field |
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