Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Jeff’s Search Engine Caffè
Copyright and distribution issues
Let’s say for a minute that a web search track is interesting. A major barrier to improvements in academic and open source web search is the lack of large-scale (hundreds of millions or even billions of pages) test collections that evolve over time. GOV2 is a static crawl of [...]

For a while now, I have been trying to get my hands on TREC data for the Lucene project.  For those who aren’t familiar, TREC is an annual competition for search engines that provides a common set of documents to index, queries to execute and judgments to check your answers to see how good an [...]