Table 3.

Table 3 Summary of Scoring Algorithm for a Single-term Search with Concept Expansion or Less

1 Individual occurrences of the search term (or variants or synonyms) have a single occurrence contribution, which is currently set to 0.8 by default. 2 Occurrence contributions may incur minor weighting adjustments based on: a) whether the term is a term variant or a synonym b) the location of the term within the field c) the length of the field 3 Occurrence contributions are aggregated (via OR operator) to produce the probability that the field is relevant to the search term. 4 Field contributions are weighted by the field weights. This is the dominant effect in determining the overall score. 5 Weighted field contributions are aggregated (via OR operator) to produce the probability that the document is relevant to the search term.