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A step-by-step tutorial to launch Terrier under Eclipse

Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse – Paul Sabatier University. A step-by-step tutorial to launch Terrier under Eclipse. Duy Dinh IRIT, Paul Sabatier University Duy.Dinh@irit.fr. Download. Download Terrier on the Terrier website Select the appropriate version

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A step-by-step tutorial to launch Terrier under Eclipse

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse – Paul Sabatier University A step-by-step tutorial to launch Terrier under Eclipse Duy DinhIRIT, Paul Sabatier University Duy.Dinh@irit.fr

  2. Download • Download Terrier on the Terrier website • Select the appropriate version • Check out the following resources: • Terrier forum • Terrier documentation • Terrier tutorial • Extract Terrier to a directory on your local machine (e.g., /usr/local/Downloads).

  3. Create New Project with Terrier • Under Eclipse, create a new Java project in your workspace (e.g., /usr/local/workspace). • Name project as terrier-xx, where ‘xx’ stands for Terrier’s version. Your project will be created in the current workspace (e.g., /usr/local/workspace/terrier-xx) • Copy the following folders from the extracted folder to the target project (e.g., …./terrier-xx) in your workspace: • ‘src’ : Java source • ‘lib’ : referenced library • ‘etc’ : configuration • ‘share’ : resource files • ‘var’ : index, resutls.

  4. Create New Project with Terrier • Reorganize ‘src’ folder so that the project structure looks like as follows: src/org/terrier/….

  5. Import library • Right-click on the project name in the ‘Package Explorer’ • Select Build path  Configure build path • Select the tab ‘Libraries’  Add External Jar • Select all the .jar files in the ‘lib’ folder

  6. Locating the main class • Go to the package org.terrier.applications.TrecTerrier.java

  7. Locating the main class • Double click on TrecTerrier.java, click on the main() method and modify it as follows:

  8. Configure Terrier • Go to the terrier-xx/etc, copy the terrier.properties.sample to terrier.properties • Modify the following properties • terrier.home=…/terrier-xx/ • terrier.index.path=…/terrier-xx/var/index • terrier.results=…/terrier-xx/var/results • etc… • Specify the input of Terrier: • Document collection • Topics (queries) • Qrel files • Etc… • For more details on the properties, please check the properties list of Terrier.

  9. Launch TrecTerrier.java • Right click on the TrecTerrier.java • Run as  Run configuration  Java application

  10. Specifying virtual arguments • Select Arguments tab and specifying virtual arguments • An alternative method to avoid specifying VM arguments is to modify the class ApplicationSetup.java so that Terrier is able to locate the settings in the /etc directory

  11. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse – Paul Sabatier University A step-by-step tutorial to launch Terrier under Eclipse Duy DinhIRIT, Paul Sabatier University Duy.Dinh@irit.fr

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