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package org.apache.lucene.search.similarities;
/**
* Normalization model that assumes a uniform distribution of the term frequency.
* <p>While this model is parameterless in the
* <a href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.101.742">
* original article</a>, <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1835490">
* information-based models</a> (see {@link IBSimilarity}) introduced a
* multiplying factor.
* The default value for the {@code c} parameter is {@code 1}.</p>
* @lucene.experimental
*/
public class NormalizationH1 extends Normalization {
private final float c;
/**
* Creates NormalizationH1 with the supplied parameter <code>c</code>.
* @param c hyper-parameter that controls the term frequency
* normalization with respect to the document length.
*/
public NormalizationH1(float c) {
this.c = c;
}
/**
* Calls {@link #NormalizationH1(float) NormalizationH1(1)}
*/
public NormalizationH1() {
this(1);
}
@Override
public final float tfn(BasicStats stats, float tf, float len) {
return tf * c * stats.getAvgFieldLength() / len;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return "1";
}
/**
* Returns the <code>c</code> parameter.
* @see #NormalizationH1(float)
*/
public float getC() {
return c;
}
}