textIR - A fast text document retrieval engine

version-0.5

Introduction

textIR is a framework for implementing index and thesaurus based information retrieval systems. It has be used to implement a fast retrieval text index with the BM25 or Language modelling querying methods, and also use to compute Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA), and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to be used in either thesaurus or index form. textIR has also been used to store and query Web link matrices when using PageRank and SALSA.

This manual is divided in the following sections:

textIR License

textIR is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

textIR is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with textIR. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.