Project related to Course Subject: Information Retrieval.

Making this Simple Infomation Retrival System for aesopa10.txt file.

Simple Information Retrieval System

Project Description

This project is a simple information retrieval system that allows users to search for documents based on keywords. The system uses a vector space model to represent documents as vectors and calculate the cosine similarity between the query vector and document vectors. The system also uses a simple inverted index to speed up the search process and simple linear search model as control.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage

Installation

This project does not demand any additional libraries in python. The only thing you need to do is to clone the repository and run the simple_information_retrival.py file as the usage specifies the command line arguments.

Usage

The system can be run from the command line using the following command to list a few:

- python simple_information_retrival.py --extract-collection aesopa10.txt
- python simple_information_retrival.py --query "somesearchterm" --model "vector/bool" --search-mode "inverted/linear" --documents "original/no_stopwords" --stemming
- python simple_information_retrival.py --query "somesearchterm" --model "vector/bool" --search-mode "inverted/linear" --documents "original/no_stopwords"
python simple_information_retrival.py --query "somesearchterm" --model "vector" --documents "original/no_stopwords"