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Add parameter to lower-bound TF normalization for BM25 (for long documents) [LUCENE-5175]

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Description

In the article "When Documents Are Very Long, BM25 Fails!" a fix for the problem is documented. There was a TODO note in BM25Similarity to add this fix. I will attach a patch that implements the fix shortly.

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Migrated from [LUCENE-5175](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5175) by Tom Burton-West, updated Aug 15 2013
Attachments: [LUCENE-5175.patch](https://apache.github.io/lucene-jira-archive/attachments/LUCENE-5175/LUCENE-5175.patch)

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