Comp4321 The Index May 14 2026

The anatomy of a top result.

query · show burnett carol search titl · doc № 128
body match

Forward index · top stems on this page

user 10 imdb 10 rate 8 music 7 movi 6 plot 6 silk 6 ninotchka 6 titl 5 quot 5 stock 5 detail 5 comment 5 board 4

document length 556 body tokens  ·  max tf 10 (user)  ·  vocabulary 375 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 stems0.0590
  2. cosine(query, title) × 2.0 no title overlap (×2.0 unused)0.0000
  3. weighted subtotal cosBody + 2.0 × cosTitle0.0590
  4. × phrase multiplier stems not within 5-token window · ×1.0×1.0
  5. × pagerank multiplier PageRank not computed for this page · ×1.0×1.0000
  6. final score weighted × phrase × pagerank0.0590

Per-query-stem · how each term contributes

  1. show wid 0515 · df 167 body tf 2 title tf 0 idf 0.845
  2. burnett wid 0534 · df 3 body tf 0 title tf 0 idf 6.644
  3. carol wid 0533 · df 6 body tf 2 title tf 0 idf 5.644
  4. search wid 0153 · df 147 body tf 0 title tf 0 idf 1.029
  5. titl wid 1103 · df 288 body tf 5 title tf 0 idf 0.059

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