## org.apache.lucene.search
Class DefaultSimilarity

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.search.Similarity
          org.apache.lucene.search.DefaultSimilarity

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:
  SweetSpotSimilarity

    public class DefaultSimilarity

extends Similarity

Expert: Default scoring implementation.

See Also:
  Serialized Form

Field Summary
`protected boolean` `discountOverlaps`

Fields inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.Similarity
`NO_DOC_ID_PROVIDED`

Constructor Summary
`DefaultSimilarity()`

Method Summary
`float` `computeNorm(String field, FieldInvertState state)` Implemented as `state.getBoost()*lengthNorm(numTerms)`, where `numTerms` is `FieldInvertState.getLength()` if `setDiscountOverlaps(boolean)` is false, else it's `FieldInvertState.getLength()` - `FieldInvertState.getNumOverlap()`.
`float` `coord(int overlap, int maxOverlap)` Implemented as `overlap / maxOverlap`.
`boolean` `getDiscountOverlaps()`
`float` `idf(int docFreq, int numDocs)` Implemented as `log(numDocs/(docFreq+1)) + 1`.
`float` `queryNorm(float sumOfSquaredWeights)` Implemented as `1/sqrt(sumOfSquaredWeights)`.
`void` `setDiscountOverlaps(boolean v)` Determines whether overlap tokens (Tokens with 0 position increment) are ignored when computing norm.
`float` `sloppyFreq(int distance)` Implemented as `1 / (distance + 1)`.
`float` `tf(float freq)` Implemented as `sqrt(freq)`.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.Similarity
`decodeNorm, decodeNormValue, encodeNorm, encodeNormValue, getDefault, getNormDecoder, idfExplain, idfExplain, idfExplain, lengthNorm, scorePayload, setDefault, tf`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Field Detail

### discountOverlaps

    protected boolean discountOverlaps

Constructor Detail

### DefaultSimilarity

    public DefaultSimilarity()

Method Detail

### computeNorm

    public float computeNorm(String field,
                             FieldInvertState state)

  Implemented as `state.getBoost()*lengthNorm(numTerms)`, where `numTerms` is `FieldInvertState.getLength()` if `setDiscountOverlaps(boolean)` is false, else it's `FieldInvertState.getLength()` - `FieldInvertState.getNumOverlap()`.

  Specified by:
    `computeNorm` in class `Similarity`
  Parameters:
    `field` - field name
    `state` - current processing state for this field
  Returns:
    the calculated float norm
  WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### queryNorm

    public float queryNorm(float sumOfSquaredWeights)

  Implemented as `1/sqrt(sumOfSquaredWeights)`.

  Specified by:
    `queryNorm` in class `Similarity`
  Parameters:
    `sumOfSquaredWeights` - the sum of the squares of query term weights
  Returns:
    a normalization factor for query weights

### tf

    public float tf(float freq)

  Implemented as `sqrt(freq)`.

  Specified by:
    `tf` in class `Similarity`
  Parameters:
    `freq` - the frequency of a term within a document
  Returns:
    a score factor based on a term's within-document frequency

### sloppyFreq

    public float sloppyFreq(int distance)

  Implemented as `1 / (distance + 1)`.

  Specified by:
    `sloppyFreq` in class `Similarity`
  Parameters:
    `distance` - the edit distance of this sloppy phrase match
  Returns:
    the frequency increment for this match
  See Also:
    `PhraseQuery.setSlop(int)`

### idf

    public float idf(int docFreq,
                     int numDocs)

  Implemented as `log(numDocs/(docFreq+1)) + 1`.

  Specified by:
    `idf` in class `Similarity`
  Parameters:
    `docFreq` - the number of documents which contain the term
    `numDocs` - the total number of documents in the collection
  Returns:
    a score factor based on the term's document frequency

### coord

    public float coord(int overlap,
                       int maxOverlap)

  Implemented as `overlap / maxOverlap`.

  Specified by:
    `coord` in class `Similarity`
  Parameters:
    `overlap` - the number of query terms matched in the document
    `maxOverlap` - the total number of terms in the query
  Returns:
    a score factor based on term overlap with the query

### setDiscountOverlaps

    public void setDiscountOverlaps(boolean v)

  Determines whether overlap tokens (Tokens with 0 position increment) are ignored when computing norm. By default this is true, meaning overlap tokens do not count when computing norms.

  See Also:
    `computeNorm(java.lang.String, org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInvertState)`
  WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### getDiscountOverlaps

    public boolean getDiscountOverlaps()

  See Also:
    `setDiscountOverlaps(boolean)`