Comp4321 The Index May 14 2026

The anatomy of a top result.

query · new cnn back sweet sauerkraut · doc № 007
title ×2.0 body match

Forward index · top stems on this page

new 3 bbc 2 rare 1 mp 1 urg 1 bt 1 goonhilli 1 commit 1 west 1 ham 1 blackburn 1 bird 1 back 1 project 1

document length 19 body tokens  ·  max tf 3 (new)  ·  vocabulary 16 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 stems0.0000
  2. cosine(query, title) × 2.0 title boost ×2.0 applied0.0000
  3. weighted subtotal cosBody + 2.0 × cosTitle0.0001
  4. × phrase multiplier stems not within 5-token window · ×1.0×1.0
  5. × pagerank multiplier 1 + 0.5 × normalized PR (0.000)×1.0002
  6. final score weighted × phrase × pagerank0.0001

Per-query-stem · how each term contributes

  1. new wid 0010 · df 292 body tf 3 title tf 1 idf 0.039
  2. cnn wid 0019 · df 2 body tf 0 title tf 0 idf 7.229
  3. back wid 0016 · df 297 body tf 1 title tf 0 idf 0.014
  4. sweet wid 0377 · df 11 body tf 0 title tf 0 idf 4.769
  5. sauerkraut wid 0905 · df 1 body tf 0 title tf 0 idf 8.229

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