Lemur Project and Indri Search Engine Wiki

Where to Begin…

• Quick Start guide
• Overview
  • Indri
  • Language Modeling and Information Retrieval Background
• Compiling and Installing

Using the Lemur Project Software

• Toolkit Usage Overview
  • Indexer File Formats
  • Inline and Offset Annotations
• Retrieval Tasks
  • IndriRunQuery
  • The Indri Daemon
• Lemur Toolkit Utilities
  • Parser Applications
  • harvestlinks
  • dumpindex
  • makeprior
  • ireval
• The Indri Query Language
  • Indri Query Language Reference
  • Basic use of the Indri Query Language
  • The Indri Retrieval Model
  • Term Operations
  • Belief Operations
  • Fields
    • Fields and Metadata
    • Numeric and Date Fields in Indri
  • Filter Require and Filter Reject (ScoreIf and ScoreNotIf)
  • Document Priors
• The Lemur CGI Application
• Lemur Project Query Log Toolbar and Server
• Galago
  • Galago Installation
  • Galago Configuration
  • Galago Functions
  • Galago Query Language
  • Galago Operators

Programming with the Indri API

• Using the API to Write Your Own Application
• Example Applications in C++
• Creating your own Parser

Advanced Topics

• Technical Details
  • Indri Document Scoring
  • Indri Query Flow
  • Indri Repository Structure
  • Indri Retrieval Model

Reference

• Table of Contents
• The Indri API documentation