With a system as complex as p-search, you are bound to run into some expected behavior, whether it be a candidate you think is missing or a score that doesn’t makes sense. The explain mechanism allows you to view information about a prior to give you a better clue as to what data is inside p-search.
p-search-explain-dwim) ¶Explain the search result or prior under the point. The information will be displayed in a separate buffer.
When ran on a prior, you will see the probabilities that the prior has assigned to the various candidates.
When ran on a candidate document, you will see information about the document including its fields and why it received the score it got.