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tl;dr is that those are different approaches to weighting documents in order to return the most relevant ones for a query.

For an intro to the problem space, see https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2014/06/10/what-is-se...

If you want a lot more detail, check out the book Relevant Search.

https://www.manning.com/books/relevant-search



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