Comp4321 The Index May 14 2026

The anatomy of a top result.

query · movi airplan user imdb first · doc № 261
body match

Forward index · top stems on this page

user 10 imdb 10 cast 10 giant 10 film 9 rate 8 movi 7 plot 7 titl 5 quot 5 quotcast 5 shadowquot 5 dvdvhscdall 5 detail 5

document length 636 body tokens  ·  max tf 10 (user)  ·  vocabulary 427 distinct stems  ·  title 3 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 stems0.0027
  2. cosine(query, title) × 2.0 no title overlap (×2.0 unused)0.0000
  3. weighted subtotal cosBody + 2.0 × cosTitle0.0027
  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 × pagerank0.0027

Per-query-stem · how each term contributes

  1. movi wid 0012 · df 290 body tf 7 title tf 0 idf 0.049
  2. airplan wid 0462 · df 3 body tf 0 title tf 0 idf 6.644
  3. user wid 1045 · df 289 body tf 10 title tf 0 idf 0.054
  4. imdb wid 1084 · df 288 body tf 10 title tf 0 idf 0.059
  5. first wid 0315 · df 159 body tf 3 title tf 0 idf 0.916

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