Comp4321 The Index May 14 2026

The anatomy of a top result.

query · book pseudomathemat relev read back · doc № 000
body match high pagerank

Forward index · top stems on this page

test 2 page 2 new 2 crawler 1 get 1 admiss 1 cse 1 depart 1 hkust 1 read 1 intern 1 book 1 movi 1 list 1

document length 17 body tokens  ·  max tf 2 (test)  ·  vocabulary 14 distinct stems  ·  title 2 stems

Score breakdown

Re-derived from the same tf·idf cosine values, boost factors, and PageRank multipliers the live ranker just used. weighted = body + title × 2.0 · final = weighted × phrase × pagerank.

  1. cosine(query, body) tf·idf body · 5 resolved stems0.1381
  2. cosine(query, title) × 2.0 no title overlap (×2.0 unused)0.0000
  3. weighted subtotal cosBody + 2.0 × cosTitle0.1381
  4. × phrase multiplier stems not within 5-token window · ×1.0×1.0
  5. × pagerank multiplier 1 + 0.5 × normalized PR (0.010)×1.0050
  6. final score weighted × phrase × pagerank0.1388

Per-query-stem · how each term contributes

  1. book wid 0011 · df 19 body tf 1 title tf 0 idf 3.981
  2. pseudomathemat wid 0032 · df 2 body tf 0 title tf 0 idf 7.229
  3. relev wid 0033 · df 2 body tf 0 title tf 0 idf 7.229
  4. read wid 0008 · df 17 body tf 1 title tf 0 idf 4.141
  5. back wid 0016 · df 297 body tf 0 title tf 0 idf 0.014

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