README.md

CMPE 493: Introduction to Information Retrieval Fall 2020

README for Term Project

Introduction:

This project has been given to us to understand and apply all possible information retrieval algorithms to create a CoViD-19 related search engine based on the TREC CoViD-19 dataset.

• Dataset Link: https://ir.nist.gov/covidSubmit/

How To Run:

To run the program, CLI is needed and many external library have been utilized.

Version & Platform: 3.8.6 (64-bit)

- Put the unzipped dataset folder and metadata.csv separately in here.

- After then, run the script to initialize and download necessary libraries:

./entry.sh

This should set your environment to be compatible with our application.

- After that, type the below to run the application:

python3 evaluation.py

- Randomization Test Tool: To run it, type the below:

All results file should be in the tra/ folder within this current directory

Example results file is in the tra/ folder.

- P.S. : <prefix_of_the_result_file> ==> e.g. tf_idf_results.txt -> tf_idf

python3 randomization.py <prefix_of_the_first_result_file> <prefix_of_the_second_result_file>