Information Retrieval - basic algorithms

This project inludes three basic algorithms:

• Boolean retrieval
• Skip list (intersect with skip pointers)
• Positional intersect

How it works?

First of all, you need to specfiy a path where your documents are kept. You can do this by using the path flag:

ir-project -path="~/documents/"

Then you need to choose one of the three algorithms by these flags: boolean, skip and positional.

Now let's see how each one works:

boolean

ir-project -path="~/documents/" -boolean "term1" "term2" "term3"

Please notice that it only supports AND query.

Skip

ir-project -path="~/documents/" -skip "term1" "term2" "term3"

Please notice that it only supports AND query.

positional

ir-project -path="~/documents/" -positional -phrase="Information retrieval is exciting"

With positional intersect algorithm, our aim is to be able to search for a whole phrase instead of checking existense of some words in documents. That's why it gives a phrase as an input.