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December 13, 2011

Orev: The Apache OpenRelevance Viewer

Filed under: Crowd Sourcing,Natural Language Processing,Relevance — Patrick Durusau @ 9:50 pm

Orev: The Apache OpenRelevance Viewer

From the webpage:

The OpenRelevance project is an Apache project, aimed at making materials for doing relevance testing for information retrieval (IR), Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Think TREC, but open-source.

These materials require a lot of managing work and many human hours to be put into collecting corpora and topics, and then judging them. Without going into too many details here about the actual process, it essentially means crowd-sourcing a lot of work, and that is assuming the OpenRelevance project had the proper tools to offer the people recruited for the work.

Having no such tool, the Viewer – Orev – is meant for being exactly that, and so to minimize the overhead required from both the project managers and the people who will be doing the actual work. By providing nice and easy facilities to add new Topics and Corpora, and to feed documents into a corpus, it will make it very easy to manage the surrounding infrastructure. And with a nice web UI to be judging documents with, the work of the recruits is going to be very easy to grok.

Focuses on judging of documents but that is a common level of granularity these days for relevance.

I don’t know of anything more granular but if you find such a tool, please sing out!

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