Elsticsearch: The Definitive Guide Learning Chapter 8 Sorting and Relevance

Sorting by Field Values

Multilevel Sorting

What Is Relevance?

The standard similarity algorithm used in ES is known as a term frequency/ inverse document frequency, or TF/IDF, takes the following factors into account:

• Term frequency
  How often does the term appear in the field?
• Inverse document frequency
  How often does each term appear in the index?
  The more often,the less relevant. Terms that appear in many documents have a lower weight than more uncommon terms.
• Field-length norm
  How long is the field? The longer it is, the less likely it is that words in the filed will be relevant.

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