Anserini: Regressions for FIRE 2012 Monolingual English
This page documents regression experiments for FIRE 2012 ad hoc retrieval (Monolingual English). The document collection can be found in FIRE data page.
The exact configurations for these regressions are stored in this YAML file. Note that this page is automatically generated from this template as part of Anserini's regression pipeline, so do not modify this page directly; modify the template instead.
Typical indexing command:
nohup sh target/appassembler/bin/IndexCollection -collection CleanTrecCollection -input /path/to/fire12-en \
-index lucene-index.fire12-en.pos+docvectors+rawdocs -generator DefaultLuceneDocumentGenerator -threads 16 \
-storePositions -storeDocvectors -storeRaw -language en >& log.fire12-en.pos+docvectors+rawdocs &
The directory /path/to/fire12-en/
should be a directory containing the collection, containing en_BDNews24
and en_TheTelegraph_2001-2010
directories.
There should be 392,577 documents in total.
For additional details, see explanation of common indexing options.
Topics and qrels are stored in src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/
, downloaded from the FIRE data page:
topics.fire12en.176-225.txt
: topics for FIRE 2012 Monolingual English (176 to 225)qrels.fire12en.176-225.txt
: qrels (version II) for FIRE 2012 Monolingual English (176 to 225)
After indexing has completed, you should be able to perform retrieval as follows:
nohup target/appassembler/bin/SearchCollection -index lucene-index.fire12-en.pos+docvectors+rawdocs \
-topicreader Trec -topics src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/topics.fire12en.176-225.txt \
-language en -bm25 -output run.fire12-en.bm25.topics.fire12en.176-225.txt &
Evaluation can be performed using trec_eval
:
eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/trec_eval -m map -m P.20 -m ndcg_cut.20 src/main/resources/topics-and-qrels/qrels.fire12en.176-225.txt run.fire12-en.bm25.topics.fire12en.176-225.txt
With the above commands, you should be able to replicate the following results:
MAP | BM25 |
---|---|
FIRE 2012 (Monolingual English) | 0.3713 |
P20 | BM25 |
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FIRE 2012 (Monolingual English) | 0.4970 |
NDCG20 | BM25 |
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FIRE 2012 (Monolingual English) | 0.5420 |