Models: various bag-of-words approaches
This page describes regressions for the Web Tracks from TREC 2009 to 2012 using the ClueWeb09 (Category B) collection. The exact configurations for these regressions are stored in this YAML file. Note that this page is automatically generated from this template as part of Anserini's regression pipeline, so do not modify this page directly; modify the template instead.
From one of our Waterloo servers (e.g., orca), the following command will perform the complete regression, end to end:
python src/main/python/run_regression.py --index --verify --search --regression cw09b
Typical indexing command:
bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexCollection \
-threads 44 \
-collection ClueWeb09Collection \
-input /path/to/cw09b \
-generator DefaultLuceneDocumentGenerator \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-storeRaw \
>& logs/log.cw09b &
The directory /path/to/ClueWeb09b should be the root directory of the ClueWeb09 (Category B) collection, i.e., ls /path/to/ClueWeb09b should bring up a bunch of subdirectories, en0000 to enwp03.
For additional details, see explanation of common indexing options.
Topics and qrels are stored here, which is linked to the Anserini repo as a submodule. They are downloaded from NIST:
topics.web.1-50.txt: topics for the TREC 2009 Web Track (Topics 1-50)topics.web.51-100.txt: topics for the TREC 2010 Web Track (Topics 51-100)topics.web.101-150.txt: topics for the TREC 2011 Web Track (Topics 101-150)topics.web.151-200.txt: topics for the TREC 2012 Web Track (Topics 151-200)prels.web.1-50.txt: prels for the TREC 2009 Web Track (Topics 1-50, category B runs)qrels.web.51-100.txt: qrels for the TREC 2010 Web Track (Topics 51-100)qrels.web.101-150.txt: qrels for the TREC 2011 Web Track (Topics 101-150)qrels.web.151-200.txt: qrels for the TREC 2012 Web Track (Topics 151-200)
After indexing has completed, you should be able to perform retrieval as follows:
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.51-100.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.bm25.topics.web.51-100.txt \
-parallelism 16 -bm25 &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.101-150.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.bm25.topics.web.101-150.txt \
-parallelism 16 -bm25 &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.151-200.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.bm25.topics.web.151-200.txt \
-parallelism 16 -bm25 &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.51-100.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.bm25+rm3.topics.web.51-100.txt \
-parallelism 16 -bm25 -rm3 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.101-150.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.bm25+rm3.topics.web.101-150.txt \
-parallelism 16 -bm25 -rm3 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.151-200.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.bm25+rm3.topics.web.151-200.txt \
-parallelism 16 -bm25 -rm3 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.51-100.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.bm25+ax.topics.web.51-100.txt \
-parallelism 16 -bm25 -axiom -axiom.deterministic -axiom.beta 0.1 -rerankCutoff 20 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.101-150.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.bm25+ax.topics.web.101-150.txt \
-parallelism 16 -bm25 -axiom -axiom.deterministic -axiom.beta 0.1 -rerankCutoff 20 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.151-200.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.bm25+ax.topics.web.151-200.txt \
-parallelism 16 -bm25 -axiom -axiom.deterministic -axiom.beta 0.1 -rerankCutoff 20 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.51-100.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.ql.topics.web.51-100.txt \
-parallelism 16 -qld &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.101-150.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.ql.topics.web.101-150.txt \
-parallelism 16 -qld &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.151-200.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.ql.topics.web.151-200.txt \
-parallelism 16 -qld &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.51-100.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.ql+rm3.topics.web.51-100.txt \
-parallelism 16 -qld -rm3 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.101-150.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.ql+rm3.topics.web.101-150.txt \
-parallelism 16 -qld -rm3 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.151-200.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.ql+rm3.topics.web.151-200.txt \
-parallelism 16 -qld -rm3 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.51-100.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.ql+ax.topics.web.51-100.txt \
-parallelism 16 -qld -axiom -axiom.deterministic -axiom.beta 0.1 -rerankCutoff 20 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.101-150.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.ql+ax.topics.web.101-150.txt \
-parallelism 16 -qld -axiom -axiom.deterministic -axiom.beta 0.1 -rerankCutoff 20 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
bin/run.sh io.anserini.search.SearchCollection \
-index indexes/lucene-index.cw09b/ \
-topics tools/topics-and-qrels/topics.web.151-200.txt \
-topicReader Webxml \
-output runs/run.cw09b.ql+ax.topics.web.151-200.txt \
-parallelism 16 -qld -axiom -axiom.deterministic -axiom.beta 0.1 -rerankCutoff 20 -collection ClueWeb09Collection &
Evaluation can be performed using trec_eval and gdeval.pl:
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25.topics.web.51-100.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25.topics.web.51-100.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25.topics.web.101-150.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25.topics.web.101-150.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25.topics.web.151-200.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25.topics.web.151-200.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+rm3.topics.web.51-100.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+rm3.topics.web.51-100.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+rm3.topics.web.101-150.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+rm3.topics.web.101-150.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+rm3.topics.web.151-200.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+rm3.topics.web.151-200.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+ax.topics.web.51-100.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+ax.topics.web.51-100.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+ax.topics.web.101-150.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+ax.topics.web.101-150.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+ax.topics.web.151-200.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.bm25+ax.topics.web.151-200.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql.topics.web.51-100.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql.topics.web.51-100.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql.topics.web.101-150.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql.topics.web.101-150.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql.topics.web.151-200.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql.topics.web.151-200.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+rm3.topics.web.51-100.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+rm3.topics.web.51-100.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+rm3.topics.web.101-150.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+rm3.topics.web.101-150.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+rm3.topics.web.151-200.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+rm3.topics.web.151-200.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+ax.topics.web.51-100.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.51-100.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+ax.topics.web.51-100.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+ax.topics.web.101-150.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.101-150.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+ax.topics.web.101-150.txt
tools/eval/gdeval.pl tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+ax.topics.web.151-200.txt
bin/trec_eval -m map -m P.30 tools/topics-and-qrels/qrels.web.151-200.txt runs/run.cw09b.ql+ax.topics.web.151-200.txt
With the above commands, you should be able to reproduce the following results:
| MAP | BM25 | +RM3 | +Ax | QL | +RM3 | +Ax |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TREC 2010 Web Track (Topics 51-100) | 0.1126 | 0.0929 | 0.0961 | 0.1060 | 0.1018 | 0.1088 |
| TREC 2011 Web Track (Topics 101-150) | 0.1094 | 0.1080 | 0.0986 | 0.0959 | 0.0835 | 0.0860 |
| TREC 2012 Web Track (Topics 151-200) | 0.1105 | 0.1108 | 0.1355 | 0.1070 | 0.1057 | 0.1224 |
| P30 | BM25 | +RM3 | +Ax | QL | +RM3 | +Ax |
| TREC 2010 Web Track (Topics 51-100) | 0.2688 | 0.2375 | 0.2528 | 0.2438 | 0.2306 | 0.2625 |
| TREC 2011 Web Track (Topics 101-150) | 0.2513 | 0.2433 | 0.2367 | 0.2147 | 0.2047 | 0.2120 |
| TREC 2012 Web Track (Topics 151-200) | 0.2167 | 0.1920 | 0.2547 | 0.2080 | 0.1973 | 0.2220 |
| nDCG@20 | BM25 | +RM3 | +Ax | QL | +RM3 | +Ax |
| TREC 2010 Web Track (Topics 51-100) | 0.1351 | 0.1371 | 0.1767 | 0.1143 | 0.1181 | 0.1495 |
| TREC 2011 Web Track (Topics 101-150) | 0.1894 | 0.1922 | 0.1854 | 0.1631 | 0.1444 | 0.1537 |
| TREC 2012 Web Track (Topics 151-200) | 0.1014 | 0.0918 | 0.1388 | 0.0876 | 0.0896 | 0.1091 |
| ERR@20 | BM25 | +RM3 | +Ax | QL | +RM3 | +Ax |
| TREC 2010 Web Track (Topics 51-100) | 0.0733 | 0.0756 | 0.1019 | 0.0599 | 0.0591 | 0.0751 |
| TREC 2011 Web Track (Topics 101-150) | 0.0959 | 0.0970 | 0.0950 | 0.0850 | 0.0781 | 0.0861 |
| TREC 2012 Web Track (Topics 151-200) | 0.1304 | 0.1491 | 0.2399 | 0.1306 | 0.1333 | 0.1564 |