src/Lucene.Net/Search/Rescorer.cs

namespace Lucene.Net.Search
{
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    /// <summary>
    /// Re-scores the topN results (<see cref="TopDocs"/>) from an original
    /// query.  See <see cref="QueryRescorer"/> for an actual
    /// implementation.  Typically, you run a low-cost
    /// first-pass query across the entire index, collecting the
    /// top few hundred hits perhaps, and then use this class to
    /// mix in a more costly second pass scoring.
    ///
    /// <para/>See 
    /// <see cref="QueryRescorer.Rescore(IndexSearcher, TopDocs, Query, double, int)"/>
    /// for a simple static method to call to rescore using a 2nd
    /// pass <see cref="Query"/>.
    /// <para/>
    /// @lucene.experimental
    /// </summary>

    public abstract class Rescorer
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Rescore an initial first-pass <see cref="TopDocs"/>.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="searcher"> <see cref="IndexSearcher"/> used to produce the
        ///   first pass topDocs </param>
        /// <param name="firstPassTopDocs"> Hits from the first pass
        ///   search.  It's very important that these hits were
        ///   produced by the provided searcher; otherwise the doc
        ///   IDs will not match! </param>
        /// <param name="topN"> How many re-scored hits to return </param>
        public abstract TopDocs Rescore(IndexSearcher searcher, TopDocs firstPassTopDocs, int topN);

        /// <summary>
        /// Explains how the score for the specified document was
        /// computed.
        /// </summary>
        public abstract Explanation Explain(IndexSearcher searcher, Explanation firstPassExplanation, int docID);
    }
}