It’s the mean. At least in Lucene. Using median would be an interesting experiment.
Do you know of a search dataset with very large document length differences? MSMarco for example is pretty consistent in length.
Was just thinking about some of the docs we have at work, and how most are relatively short ( probably < 10 pages) and some are like... 200+ page government things
Was just thinking about some of the docs we have at work, and how most are relatively short ( probably < 10 pages) and some are like... 200+ page government things