Information Retrieval Results Parsing

This project browse and explain part of TREC dataset study results.

platforms and technologies used:

1. Java 8 as a programming language on NetBeans 8.2 platform.
2. jFreeChart 1.0.19 java library for visualizing the data.
3. Weka API 3.7.7 java library for Classification/Clustering functions.

So in order to run the project correctly make sure to include/import the two libraries (jFreeChart and Weka API 3.7.7).

Software Architecture

We choose to build this project on MVC architecture. The project structures contain four main packages which are the following:

1. Controllers Package: contain the main controller for this application.
2. Gui Package (Views): contain the jFrames of the application
3. Models: contains all java classes, types, and enums need to represent the data.
4. Helpers: contains XMLHelper, CSVHelper, and ChartHelper.

Resource Files needed

To run the application and display the results you need to use three main files which are:

• Queries/Topics XML File
• User Formulation XML Files
• User Query Formulation Evaluation/Performance file.
• Performance Files for Three Systems (CSV files)

Those files will be available soon!