fix: ContextPrecision now scores by position of relevant context (clo…#178
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fix: ContextPrecision now scores by position of relevant context (clo…#178Nishtha Nabya (NishthaNabya) wants to merge 1 commit intobraintrustdata:mainfrom
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Fixes #176
The issue is that when you pass a list of context chunks, the scorer was joining them all into one string before sending to the LLM. So it was basically asking "does the answer exist anywhere in this blob of text?" which always returns 1 if the relevant chunk is in there, regardless of where it sits in the list.
But that's not what ContextPrecision is supposed to measure. The whole point is to reward retrievers that surface relevant context first. If your relevant chunk is buried at the bottom, the score should reflect that.
The fix scores each chunk individually, then applies the standard RAGAS positional formula:
score = sum(precision_at_k * verdict_k) / total_relevant
So for the example in the issue (relevant chunk is second):
Also made sure the scorer still works when context is passed as a plain string (not a list), so it's fully backward compatible.