Field RankConstant

Namespace

MailFathom.Application.Emails.Search

Assembly

MailFathom.Application.dll

The constant that flattens the difference between the very top places.

public const int RankConstant = 60

Returns

int

The constant that flattens the difference between the very top places.

Remarks

Sixty, from the paper the method comes from, and a constant rather than a setting. Its role is to keep one ranking's first place from dominating the sum: at k = 60 the gap between rank one and rank two is small enough that agreement between the two rankings outweighs a single confident first place, which is the behavior hybrid retrieval is wanted for. A deployment-tunable value would be a second way to make two instances disagree about what "most relevant" means while both reported the same retrieval mode.