CS419 - Introduction to Information Retrieval - Final Project

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Brief introduction

• Information retrieval system on Vietnamese News dataset.
• Queries can be with-accent and non-accent.
• Implicit feedback from user by clicking links.
• N-gram algorithm is applied.

Installation and Testing

Software:

• Visual Studio 2013 (if use VS Express -> Desktop app version).

Setup:

• Put dataset into Resources folder (i.e. Resources/DTR0503301823.txt).
• Run the project using Visual Studio.
• For first run, click button Run Indexer to build inverted index for dataset (latter run can reuse existing index file).
• After the Indexer finish running, input query in TextBox and click Search to search.
• In Result Dialog, after clicking on some relevant documents, click Refresh to view the revised result using the relevant documents (documents those are clicked).