The Terrier IR Platform is a modular
open source
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software for the rapid development of large-scale
information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the task of identifying and retrieving information system resources that are relevant to an Information needs, information need. The information need can be specified in the form ...
applications. Terrier was developed by members of th
Information Retrieval Research Group Department of Computing Science, at the
University of Glasgow
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.
A core version of Terrier is available as open source software under the
Mozilla Public License
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(MPL), with the aim to facilitate experimentation and research in the wider information retrieval community.
Terrier is written in
Java
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.
References
Bibliography
Terrier: A High Performance and Scalable Information Retrieval Platform (pdf)- Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, and Christina Lioma. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR'06 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval (OSIR 2006). 10 August, 2006. Seattle, Washington, USA.
University of Glasgow at TREC 2006: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier (pdf) Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Jie Peng, Ben He and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of the 15th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2006.
University of Glasgow at TREC 2005: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier(pdf) Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of the 14th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2005.
External links
Terrier Project
Free search engine software
Software using the Mozilla Public License
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
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