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Terrier Future Features and Known Issues

List of features and known issues that are marked for future Terrier versions:

Future Features

Move to single-pass indexing by default.
Ant task for compiling Terrier.
Terrier's own Exceptions for setup, indexing, querying.
Postscript parsing (via PDF?).
Refinement of desktop search application with improved interface and parsers for more types of documents, as well as better integration with common Operating Systems.
Move towards more systematic updatable indices.

Known Issues

Open With dialog for Desktop Terrier on Mac OS X.
Faster PDF parsing, perhaps calling pdf2text if available.
Refinement of the query language: remove the ambiguity warnings when generating the parser with ANTLR, and introductions of a more structures query language.

Deprecations

The following classes and interfaces are deprecated in this version of Terrier and will likely be removed in a future release:

Contributions

All community contributions to the Terrier framework are welcome. In addition, you can find more information about contributing on the Terrier website.

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