The answer to this may well be no, but is there a way to derive some kind of exportable numerical value from the search scores that display as graphical heatmaps in the results in the item list?
I’m getting interesting use out of the ranking of Boolean search results within a corpus of documents, and the relative scores of items in the ranking – such as when some items at the top are clearly very strong matches and then there’s a run of visibly much weaker ones. But what I can’t figure out is a way of doing is putting numbers to the scores; I can copy and paste the list to save the ranked order, but I haven’t come up with a way to quantify the relative scores except in a very basic single-word search (where in principle I can at least look up the Concordance stats for that word in each document).
What I’d ideally like to be able to do is to search, for instance, for a group of terms (say “pet OR dog OR cat”) and translate the graphic into a number for each matching document in the ranking by score. I don’t need or particularly want to know what the number means; obviously the heatmap graphic is an elegant representation of the score from a complex proprietary algorithm that I’m happy to leave as a black box. But if anyone has any bright ideas for how to get numerical data out of it, short of counting the pixels of different colours on the screen, I know that person will be somewhere in this forum…