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<h1 id="Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_IBSimilarity" data-uid="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.IBSimilarity" class="text-break">Class IBSimilarity
</h1>
<div class="markdown level0 summary"><p>Provides a framework for the family of information-based models, as described
in StÉphane Clinchant and Eric Gaussier. 2010. Information-based
models for ad hoc IR. In Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR
conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR &apos;10).
ACM, New York, NY, USA, 234-241.
<p>The retrieval function is of the form <em>RSV(q, d) = ∑
-x<sup>q</sup><sub>w</sub> log Prob(X<sub>w</sub> &gt;=
t<sup>d</sup><sub>w</sub> | λ<sub>w</sub>)</em>, where
<ul><li><em>x<sup>q</sup><sub>w</sub></em> is the query boost;</li><li><em>X<sub>w</sub></em> is a random variable that counts the occurrences
of word <em>w</em>;</li><li><em>t<sup>d</sup><sub>w</sub></em> is the normalized term frequency;</li><li><em>λ<sub>w</sub></em> is a parameter.</li></ul>
</p>
<p>The framework described in the paper has many similarities to the DFR
framework (see <a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.DFRSimilarity.html">DFRSimilarity</a>). It is possible that the two
Similarities will be merged at one point.</p>
<p>To construct an <a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.IBSimilarity.html">IBSimilarity</a>, you must specify the implementations for
all three components of the Information-Based model.
<table><thead><tr><th>ComponentImplementations</th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.IBSimilarity.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_IBSimilarity_Distribution">Distribution</a>: Probabilistic distribution used to
model term occurrence
<ul><li><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.DistributionLL.html">DistributionLL</a>: Log-logistic</li><li><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.DistributionLL.html">DistributionLL</a>: Smoothed power-law</li></ul>
</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.IBSimilarity.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_IBSimilarity_Lambda">Lambda</a>: λ<sub>w</sub> parameter of the
probability distribution
<ul><li><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.LambdaDF.html">LambdaDF</a>: <code>N<sub>w</sub>/N</code> or average
number of documents where w occurs</li><li><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.LambdaTTF.html">LambdaTTF</a>: <code>F<sub>w</sub>/N</code> or
average number of occurrences of w in the collection</li></ul>
</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.IBSimilarity.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_IBSimilarity_Normalization">Normalization</a>: Term frequency normalizationAny supported DFR normalization (listed in
<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.DFRSimilarity.html">DFRSimilarity</a>)
</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h5>Inheritance</h5>
<div class="level0"><span class="xref">System.Object</span></div>
<div class="level1"><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.Similarity.html">Similarity</a></div>
<div class="level2"><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html">SimilarityBase</a></div>
<div class="level3"><span class="xref">IBSimilarity</span></div>
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<h5>Inherited Members</h5>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_SimilarityBase_DiscountOverlaps">SimilarityBase.DiscountOverlaps</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_SimilarityBase_ComputeWeight_System_Single_Lucene_Net_Search_CollectionStatistics_Lucene_Net_Search_TermStatistics___">SimilarityBase.ComputeWeight(Single, CollectionStatistics, TermStatistics[])</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_SimilarityBase_NewStats_System_String_System_Single_">SimilarityBase.NewStats(String, Single)</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_SimilarityBase_FillBasicStats_Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_BasicStats_Lucene_Net_Search_CollectionStatistics_Lucene_Net_Search_TermStatistics_">SimilarityBase.FillBasicStats(BasicStats, CollectionStatistics, TermStatistics)</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_SimilarityBase_Explain_Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_BasicStats_System_Int32_Lucene_Net_Search_Explanation_System_Single_">SimilarityBase.Explain(BasicStats, Int32, Explanation, Single)</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_SimilarityBase_GetSimScorer_Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_Similarity_SimWeight_Lucene_Net_Index_AtomicReaderContext_">SimilarityBase.GetSimScorer(Similarity.SimWeight, AtomicReaderContext)</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_SimilarityBase_ComputeNorm_Lucene_Net_Index_FieldInvertState_">SimilarityBase.ComputeNorm(FieldInvertState)</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_SimilarityBase_DecodeNormValue_System_Byte_">SimilarityBase.DecodeNormValue(Byte)</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.SimilarityBase.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_SimilarityBase_Log2_System_Double_">SimilarityBase.Log2(Double)</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.Similarity.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_Similarity_Coord_System_Int32_System_Int32_">Similarity.Coord(Int32, Int32)</a>
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<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.Similarity.html#Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_Similarity_QueryNorm_System_Single_">Similarity.QueryNorm(Single)</a>
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<h6><strong>Namespace</strong>: <a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.html">Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities</a></h6>
<h6><strong>Assembly</strong>: Lucene.Net.dll</h6>
<h5 id="Lucene_Net_Search_Similarities_IBSimilarity_syntax">Syntax</h5>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">public class IBSimilarity : SimilarityBase</code></pre>
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<h3 id="constructors">Constructors
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<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>Creates IBSimilarity from the three components.
<p>
Note that <code>null</code> values are not allowed:
if you want no normalization, instead pass
<a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.Normalization.NoNormalization.html">Normalization.NoNormalization</a>. </p>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">public IBSimilarity(Distribution distribution, Lambda lambda, Normalization normalization)</code></pre>
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<h5 class="parameters">Parameters</h5>
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<th>Name</th>
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<td><span class="parametername">distribution</span></td>
<td><p>probabilistic distribution modeling term occurrence </p>
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<td><span class="parametername">lambda</span></td>
<td><p>distribution&apos;s λ<sub>w</sub> parameter </p>
</td>
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<td><a class="xref" href="Lucene.Net.Search.Similarities.Normalization.html">Normalization</a></td>
<td><span class="parametername">normalization</span></td>
<td><p>term frequency normalization </p>
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<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>The probabilistic distribution used to model term occurrence. </p>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">protected readonly Distribution m_distribution</code></pre>
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<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>The <em>lambda (λ<sub>w</sub>)</em> parameter. </p>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">protected readonly Lambda m_lambda</code></pre>
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<h5 class="fieldValue">Field Value</h5>
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<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>The term frequency normalization. </p>
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<h5 class="decalaration">Declaration</h5>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">protected readonly Normalization m_normalization</code></pre>
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<h5 class="fieldValue">Field Value</h5>
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<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>Returns the distribution</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">public virtual Distribution Distribution { get; }</code></pre>
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<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>Returns the distribution&apos;s lambda parameter</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">public virtual Lambda Lambda { get; }</code></pre>
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<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>Returns the term frequency normalization</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">public virtual Normalization Normalization { get; }</code></pre>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">protected override void Explain(Explanation expl, BasicStats stats, int doc, float freq, float docLen)</code></pre>
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<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>The name of IB methods follow the pattern
<code>IB &lt;distribution&gt; &lt;lambda&gt;&lt;normalization&gt;</code>. The name of the
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