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Module comb

Module comb 

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CombSUM / CombMNZ score fusion.

Each list is min-max normalized. CombSUM sums those values; a missing list contributes 0. CombMNZ multiplies the sum by the number of lists that retrieved the id.

Fox, Shaw, Combination of Multiple Searches, TREC-2, 1993. doi:10.6028/nist.sp.500-215.vt Lee, Analyses of multiple evidence combination, SIGIR 1997. doi:10.1145/258525.258587 Montague, Aslam, Relevance score normalization for metasearch, CIKM 2001. doi:10.1145/502585.502657

Functions§

combmnz_merge
Merge scored lists by CombMNZ. Ties break by first-seen id order.
combsum_merge
Merge scored lists by CombSUM. Ties break by first-seen id order.

Type Aliases§

ScoredBallot
One scored list. The f64 is the raw score; order is first-seen only.