AquaLogic Interaction User Guide

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How Term Frequency Factors in Relevance

The number of times a query term (or its stemmed and case variant forms) appears in a searchable item has a large influence on the relevance ranking of the item. All other things being equal, items which contain more instances of a query term will rank higher than items containing fewer instances. This is known as term-frequency-based ranking.


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