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Clarify uses of "probabilistic"
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Not all the weighting schemes we now support are probabilistic.
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list of terms joined with a combination of operators such as AND, OR,
AND_NOT). In many systems, these documents are not ranked according to their
relevance. In Xapian, a pure Boolean query may be used, or alternatively a
Boolean style query can filter the retrieved documents, which are then ordered
using a probabilistic ranking.
Boolean style query can filter the retrieved documents, which are then ranked
using a weighting formula.

**Brass**
Brass was the current "under development" database format in Xapian 1.2.x,
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returned.

**Probabilistic IR**
Probabilistic IR is retrieval based on probability theory, this can produce a
ranked list of documents based upon relevance. Xapian uses probabilistic
methods (the only exception is when a pure Boolean query is chosen)
Probabilistic IR is retrieval using a weighting formula derived from
probability theory to produce a ranked list of documents based upon estimated
relevance. Xapian supports several families of weighting schemes, some of
which are based on probabilistic methods.

**Quartz**
Quartz was the database format used by Xapian prior to version 1.0. Support
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