Pyserini Release Notes (v0.9.2.0)

Release date: May 15, 2020

Refactored SimpleSearcher to keep up with underlying changes in Anserini.
Exposed num_docs in SimpleSearcher.
Exposed Lucene query building blocks in pyquerybuilder.
Exposed options for setting BM25 parameters when computing BM25 term weights in IndexReaderUtils.
Added Cord19Article to provide support for manipulating CORD-19 articles in pycollection.
Added documentation for reading CORD-19 via the Collection API; supports data drop of 2020/05/12.
Known issue: new methods for computing query-document scores have not be properly "wired up" in Pyserini yet.

Contributors (This Release)

Sorted by number of commits:

Jimmy Lin (lintool)
Chris Kamphuis (Chriskamphuis)
Pepijn Boers (PepijnBoers)
Stephanie Hu (stephaniewhoo)

All Contributors

Sorted by number of commits, according to GitHub:

Jimmy Lin (lintool)
Zeynep Akkalyoncu Yilmaz (zeynepakkalyoncu)
Chris Kamphuis (Chriskamphuis)
Tommaso Teofili (tteofili)
Pepijn Boers (PepijnBoers)
Stephanie Hu (stephaniewhoo)
Rodrigo Nogueira (rodrigonogueira4)
Alireza Mirzaeiyan (amirzaeiyan)