Release notes for v0.16.1 (castorini#1170)

README.md

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 ## Release History
 
++ v0.16.1: May 12, 2022 [[Release Notes](docs/release-notes/release-notes-v0.16.1.md)]
 + v0.16.0: March 1, 2022 [[Release Notes](docs/release-notes/release-notes-v0.16.0.md)]
 + v0.15.0: January 21, 2022 [[Release Notes](docs/release-notes/release-notes-v0.15.0.md)]
 + v0.14.0: November 8, 2021 [[Release Notes](docs/release-notes/release-notes-v0.14.0.md)]

docs/release-notes/release-notes-v0.16.1.md

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+# Pyserini Release Notes (v0.16.1)
+
+**Release date: May 12, 2022**
+
++ Installed pre-built indexes:
+  + BEIR (v1.0.0): "flat" baseline, "multfield" baseline, and SPLADE-distill CoCodenser-medium.
+  + MS MARCO V1/V2 segmented doc condition (updated indexes).
+  + MS MARCO V1 doc/passage uniCOIL noexp.
++ Created initial repro-matrix for MS MARCO V1/V2 doc/passage.
++ Improved indexing util for encoding a corpus.
++ Added util to dump out BM25 document vectors from a corpus.
++ Added bindings to new Anserini feature: multi-threaded method to fetch raw documents from index in batch.
++ Added option in `trec_eval` to compute metrics with unjudged docs removed and to computed judged@k.
++ Added IRST retrieval model, with integration tests.
++ Added `SimpleGeoSearcher`.
++ Refactored LTR pipeline, improved documentation.
++ Refactored `IndexReader`, moved from `pyserini.index` to `pyserini.index.lucene`.
++ Refactored Vector-PRF implementation and added negative PRF passages for Rocchio.
++ Refactored code for loading topics and qrels.
++ Updated documentation for dense encoding.
+
+## Contributors (This Release)
+
+Sorted by number of commits:
+
++ Jimmy Lin ([lintool](https://github.com/lintool))
++ Xueguang Ma ([MXueguang](https://github.com/MXueguang))
++ Xinyu (Crystina) Zhang ([crystina-z](https://github.com/crystina-z))
++ Stephanie Hu ([stephaniewhoo](https://github.com/stephaniewhoo))
++ Habeeb Shopeju ([HAKSOAT](https://github.com/HAKSOAT))
++ Manveer Tamber ([manveertamber](https://github.com/manveertamber))
++ Yuqi Liu ([yuki617](https://github.com/yuki617))
++ Jasper Xian ([jasper-xian](https://github.com/jasper-xian))
++ Nandan Thakur ([NThakur20](https://github.com/NThakur20))
++ Shengyao Zhuang ([ArvinZhuang](https://github.com/ArvinZhuang))
++ Yuqing Xie ([amyxie361](https://github.com/amyxie361))
++ Matt Yang ([d1shs0ap](https://github.com/d1shs0ap))
++ Ji Xi Yang ([jx3yang](https://github.com/jx3yang))
++ Vivian Liu ([vivianliu0](https://github.com/vivianliu0))
++ vjeronymo2 ([vjeronymo2](https://github.com/vjeronymo2))
++ xiaoyu ([XY2323819551](https://github.com/XY2323819551))
+
+## All Contributors
+
+All contributors with five or more commits, sorted by number of commits, [according to GitHub](https://github.com/castorini/pyserini/graphs/contributors):
+
++ Jimmy Lin ([lintool](https://github.com/lintool))
++ Xueguang Ma ([MXueguang](https://github.com/MXueguang))
++ Yuqi Liu ([yuki617](https://github.com/yuki617))
++ Johnson Han ([x65han](https://github.com/x65han))
++ Stephanie Hu ([stephaniewhoo](https://github.com/stephaniewhoo))
++ Xinyu (Crystina) Zhang ([crystina-z](https://github.com/crystina-z))
++ Arthur Chen ([ArthurChen189](https://github.com/ArthurChen189))
++ Ronak Pradeep ([ronakice](https://github.com/ronakice))
++ Jack Lin ([jacklin64](https://github.com/jacklin64))
++ Hang Li ([hanglics](https://github.com/hanglics))
++ Chris Kamphuis ([Chriskamphuis](https://github.com/Chriskamphuis))
++ Manveer Tamber ([manveertamber](https://github.com/manveertamber))
++ Zeynep Akkalyoncu Yilmaz ([zeynepakkalyoncu](https://github.com/zeynepakkalyoncu))
++ Xinyu Mavis Liu ([x389liu](https://github.com/x389liu))
++ Sailesh Nankani ([saileshnankani](https://github.com/saileshnankani))
++ Pepijn Boers ([PepijnBoers](https://github.com/PepijnBoers))
++ Habeeb Shopeju ([HAKSOAT](https://github.com/HAKSOAT))