For those with SSL issues here is the fix:

[EdwardBurgin]

Heres the error message:

urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:1131)>
      Fetching trec_eval from http://github.com/usnistgov/trec_eval/archive/v9.0.8.tar.gz.

On our proxy we only have a http and https is passed through this, on newer urllib3 this I have read causes a problem.
The fix creates an unsecured connection, without SSL: edit the file: /pytrec_eval/setup.py

import ssl
ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
ctx.check_hostname = False
ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

response = urllib.request.urlopen(REMOTE_TREC_EVAL_URI, context = ctx)

[colabear-info]

Another solution:

download the file http://github.com/usnistgov/trec_eval/archive/v9.0.8.tar.gz somewhile else, unzip it into the root folder of the git and rename it to trec_eval.

The dataset structure will be like

• pytrect_eval
  • setup.py
  • trec_eval/