Information Retrieval Project

A solution to the TREC 2020 passage ranking competition.

Table of Contents

Contents

• Information Retrieval Project

  • Table of Contents

  • Description

  • How to setup up

  • How to use

  • Credits

Description

Information retrieval in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources [1].

How to setup up

Follow these steps:

1. Install dependencies

2. Generate features using this notebook

3. Evaluate pairwise and pointwise algorithms.

How to use

The module can be used by accessing the command line interface or using the corresponding notebooks.

A detailed documentation can be found here.

Credits

This project started in March 2022 at the University of Mannheim. The team consists of:

• Munir

• Jonas

• Stefan

• Tobias

• Tim

A Bert pairwise model is in progress and can be found in the corresponding branch.

Contents:

• Datasets
• Preprocessing
• Bert
• Glove
• TFIDF
• Word2Vec
• BM25
• Features
• Generator
• Pairwise Model
• Ranknet
• Training and Evaluation