Release date: December 16, 2018
- Final release based on Lucene 6; upgrade to Lucene 7 planned next.
- TREC 2018 additions:
- Added runbooks for Anserini and h2oloo groups.
- Added code for News Track Background Linking Task.
- Added default regressions for Common Core Track.
- Revived and augmented experimental feature to index/search Freebase.
- Added Jelinek-Mercer smoothing for QL scoring.
- Updated JDIQ regression tests to align with article publication.
- Added regression tests for SIGIR Forum article.
- Added ability to supply multiple retrieval parameters on command line for more efficient parameter sweeps.
- Fixed bug in implementation of
-rm3.fbTerms. - Refactored Ax and RM3 feedback reranker to construct queries programmatically instead of using Lucene's
QueryParser.
Sorted by number of commits:
- Jimmy Lin (lintool)
- Peilin Yang (Peilin-Yang)
- Ryan Clancy (r-clancy)
- Kuang Lu (lukuang)
- Peng Shi (Impavidity)
- Yuhao Xie (Kytabyte)
- Chris Kamphuis (Chriskamphuis)
- Matteo Catena (catenamatteo)
- Tommaso Teofili (tteofili)
- Victor Yang (Victor0118)
Sorted by number of commits, according to GitHub:
- Jimmy Lin (lintool)
- Peilin Yang (Peilin-Yang)
- Ahmet Arslan (iorixxx)
- Royal Sequiera (rosequ)
- Boris Lin (borislin)
- Yuhao Xie (Kytabyte)
- Salman Mohammed (Salman Mohammed)
- Luchen Tan (LuchenTan)
- Victor Yang (Victor0118)
- Michael Tu (tuzhucheng)
- Dayang Shi (dyshi)
- Ryan Clancy (r-clancy)
- Xin Qian (xeniaqian94)
- Adam Roegiest (aroegies)
- Kuang Lu (lukuang)
- Peng Shi (Impavidity)
- Mengfei Liu (meng-f)
- Mina Farid (minafarid)
- Gaurav Baruah (gauravbaruah)
- Xing Niu (xingniu)
- Tommaso Teofili (tteofili)
- Chris Kamphuis (Chriskamphuis)
- Matteo Catena (catenamatteo)
- Petek Yıldız (ptkyldz)