Terrier 4.0, the next version of the open source IR platform from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) has been released on 18th June 2014.
Terrier 4.0 represents a major update over the previous 3.6 release, adding significant new features, including:
Terrier 4.0 represents a major update over the previous 3.6 release, adding significant new features, including:
- Real-time index structures to facilitate incremental indexing of new documents as over time
- Pluggable state-of-the-art index compression reduces the size of Terrier's index structures
- Learning-to-rank support enables out-of-the-box supervised ranking models, trained using state-of-the-art approaches such as LambdaMART
- A website search application is now provided, illustrating real-time crawling, indexing and retrieval within Terrier.
Terrier can be downloaded for free from http://terrier.org.
A full change log can be found at
http://terrier.org/docs/current/whats_new.html.
A full change log can be found at
http://terrier.org/docs/current/whats_new.html.
