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by marginalia_nu 989 days ago
A lot of these things are use-case dependent. Like the characteristics even of BM-25 varies a lot depending on whether the query is over or under specified, the nature of the query and so on.

I don't think there will ever be an answer to what is the best way of doing information retrieval for a search engine scale corpus of document that is superior for every type of queries.