The Indri Query Language

The Indri Query Language is a complete structural query language, originally based on the InQuery Query language. The Indri Query Language has evolved over the years to its current format which (in our opinion) encompasses most of the needs of the IR community for retrieval.

Use the links below to explore the various elements of the Indri Query language and retrieval with Indri in general:

• [Basic use of the Indri Query Language]
• [The Indri Retrieval Model]
• [Term Operations]
• [Belief Operations]
• [Fields]
  • [Numeric and Date Fields in Indri]
• [Filter Require and Filter Reject (ScoreIf and ScoreNotIf)]
• [Document Priors]