Terrer-WAPO

A Terrier Collection implementation for the WAPO collection

Installation

Terrier can pick up the code from a local Maven repository. You should install into the local Maven repo.

git clone <this repo>
cd terrier-wapo
mvn install

Configuration and Usage in Terrier

You need to adjust the terrier.properties file in order to use this plugin to index the WAPO corpus

#import the terrier-wapo plugin
terrier.mvn.coords=uk.ac.gla.dcs.terrierteam:terrier-wapo:0.1

#tell indexing to use it
trec.collection.class=uk.ac.gla.terrier.indexing.WAPOCollection

#use more characters to record the doclength
indexer.meta.forward.keylens=40

Then the following standard Terrier commands should be used to create the index:

bin/trec_setup.sh <path to the WAPO corpus>
bin/terrier batchindexing

Credits

• Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow