Reimplement Language Modelling weights
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1 /** @file
2 * @brief Xapian::TradWeight class - the "traditional" probabilistic formula
3 */
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21 #include <config.h>
23 #include "xapian/weight.h"
24 #include "weightinternal.h"
26 #include "debuglog.h"
27 #include "omassert.h"
28 #include "serialise-double.h"
30 #include "xapian/error.h"
32 #include <algorithm>
33 #include <cmath>
35 using namespace std;
37 namespace Xapian {
39 TradWeight *
40 TradWeight::clone() const
42 return new TradWeight(param_k);
45 void
46 TradWeight::init(double factor)
48 if (factor == 0.0) {
49 // This object is for the term-independent contribution, and that's
50 // always zero for this scheme.
51 return;
54 Xapian::doccount tf = get_termfreq();
56 double tw = 0;
57 if (get_rset_size() != 0) {
58 Xapian::doccount reltermfreq = get_reltermfreq();
60 // There can't be more relevant documents indexed by a term than there
61 // are documents indexed by that term.
62 AssertRel(reltermfreq,<=,tf);
64 // There can't be more relevant documents indexed by a term than there
65 // are relevant documents.
66 AssertRel(reltermfreq,<=,get_rset_size());
68 Xapian::doccount reldocs_not_indexed = get_rset_size() - reltermfreq;
70 // There can't be more relevant documents not indexed by a term than
71 // there are documents not indexed by that term.
72 AssertRel(reldocs_not_indexed,<=,get_collection_size() - tf);
74 Xapian::doccount Q = get_collection_size() - reldocs_not_indexed;
76 Xapian::doccount nonreldocs_indexed = tf - reltermfreq;
77 double numerator = (reltermfreq + 0.5) * (Q - tf + 0.5);
78 double denom = (reldocs_not_indexed + 0.5) * (nonreldocs_indexed + 0.5);
79 tw = numerator / denom;
80 } else {
81 tw = (get_collection_size() - tf + 0.5) / (tf + 0.5);
84 AssertRel(tw,>,0);
86 // The "official" formula can give a negative termweight in unusual cases
87 // (without an RSet, when a term indexes more than half the documents in
88 // the database). These negative weights aren't actually helpful, and it
89 // is common for implementations to replace them with a small positive
90 // weight or similar.
92 // Truncating to zero doesn't seem a great approach in practice as it
93 // means that some terms in the query can have no effect at all on the
94 // ranking, and that some results can have zero weight, both of which
95 // are seem surprising.
97 // Xapian 1.0.x and earlier adjusted the termweight for any term indexing
98 // more than a third of documents, which seems rather "intrusive". That's
99 // what the code currently enabled does, but perhaps it would be better to
100 // do something else. (FIXME)
101 #if 0
102 if (rare(tw <= 1.0)) {
103 termweight = 0;
104 } else {
105 termweight = log(tw) * factor;
107 #else
108 if (tw < 2) tw = tw * 0.5 + 1;
109 termweight = log(tw) * factor;
110 #endif
112 LOGVALUE(WTCALC, termweight);
114 if (param_k == 0) {
115 // If param_k is 0 then the document length doesn't affect the weight.
116 len_factor = 0;
117 } else {
118 len_factor = get_average_length();
119 // len_factor can be zero if all documents are empty (or the database is
120 // empty!)
121 if (len_factor != 0) len_factor = param_k / len_factor;
124 LOGVALUE(WTCALC, len_factor);
127 string
128 TradWeight::name() const
130 return "Xapian::TradWeight";
133 string
134 TradWeight::short_name() const
136 return "trad";
139 string
140 TradWeight::serialise() const
142 return serialise_double(param_k);
145 TradWeight *
146 TradWeight::unserialise(const string & s) const
148 const char *ptr = s.data();
149 const char *end = ptr + s.size();
150 double k = unserialise_double(&ptr, end);
151 if (rare(ptr != end))
152 throw Xapian::SerialisationError("Extra data in TradWeight::unserialise()");
153 return new TradWeight(k);
156 double
157 TradWeight::get_sumpart(Xapian::termcount wdf, Xapian::termcount len,
158 Xapian::termcount, Xapian::termcount) const
160 double wdf_double = wdf;
161 return termweight * (wdf_double / (len * len_factor + wdf_double));
164 double
165 TradWeight::get_maxpart() const
167 double wdf_max = get_wdf_upper_bound();
168 Xapian::termcount doclen_lb = get_doclength_lower_bound();
169 return termweight * (wdf_max / (doclen_lb * len_factor + wdf_max));
172 static inline void
173 parameter_error(const char* message)
175 Xapian::Weight::Internal::parameter_error(message, "trad");
178 TradWeight *
179 TradWeight::create_from_parameters(const char * p) const
181 if (*p == '\0')
182 return new Xapian::TradWeight();
183 double k = 1.0;
184 if (!Xapian::Weight::Internal::double_param(&p, &k))
185 parameter_error("Parameter is invalid");
186 if (*p)
187 parameter_error("Extra data after parameter");
188 return new Xapian::TradWeight(k);