ielab at the Open-Source IR Replicability Challenge 2019
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '19)
Harry Scells
Guido Zuccon
We present our participating Docker image in the SIGIR Open-Source IR Replicability Challenge 2019. Our participation includes an Elasticsearch-based Docker image conforming to the specifications laid out by the challenge, a collection parser, and a topic parser. Our Docker image is capable of indexing and searching several commonly used Information Retrieval test collections including robust04 (Trec 2004 Robust Track Topics – disks 4/5), core17 (TREC New York Times Annotated Corpus), and core18 (TREC Washington Post Corpus). The Docker image and associated tools we present in this paper provide a solid foundation for replicable Information Retrieval experiments using Elasticsearch.