Description My NearText queries where I request the “distance” are returning NULL for distance. Here is a sample query: { Get { SolrCopy ( limit: 10 hybrid: { query: "Key concerns surrounding genocide and its impact on social justice" alpha: 0.8 } where: { operator: And, operands: [ { path: ["sit…

Yes, I think I’ve got this part. I’m now using certainty for nearText and score for hybrid. [whre does minchat discuss the 3 principles of isaiah (nearText certainty) 2024-04-10_23-51-50] [whre does minchat discuss the 3 principles of isaiah (hybrid) 2024-04-10_23-51-50] They obviously have ver…

Hi! As discussed in our support ticket, the issue here is that while the near text will return you a distance, hybrid (as well as bm25) will return a score. So for example, take this code as an example: result = collection.query.near_text( "Searching for a near text", limit=10, return_met…

NearText Queries returning NULL on Distance

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SomebodySysop April 11, 2024, 8:46pm 3

Yes, I think I’ve got this part. I’m now using certainty for nearText and score for hybrid.

They obviously have very little in common, except being from 0 to 1 and higher value being closest to query.

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NearText Queries returning NULL on Distance

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