Terrier IR project description:
Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents. Terrier implements state-of-the-art indexing and retrieval functionalities, and provides an ideal platform for the rapid development and evaluation of large-scale retrieval applications.
Terrier is open source, and is a comprehensive, flexible and transparent platform for research and experimentation in text retrieval. Research can easily be carried out on standard TREC and CLEF test collections.
Become comfortable with the TREC or CLEF test collections.
A topic map on any part of either collection would attract IR researchers to topic maps.
You might be interested in this, for the sources, if not for the polemic.
Comment by sam hunting — April 26, 2010 @ 10:23 am
I would not be so quick to dismiss your example # one as being useless.
Not all visualizations are equally useful to all users.
After years of biblical criticism, I don’t find either example all that remarkable but someone with another background might.
Comment by Patrick Durusau — April 26, 2010 @ 12:21 pm
[…] The wiki page for this project has a pointer to the search engine in A “Terrier” For Your Tool Box?. […]
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