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What's New in Terrier

Terrier 4.1 - 04/12/2015

Substantial update that includes a re-structuring of the Terrier build routines and dependencies to support compilation using Maven, along with a number of other minor improvements and bug fixes.

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Acknowledgements

The release of Terrier 4.1 was supported by the following projects and funding bodies

Terrier 4.0 - 18/06/2014

Major update adding significant new features:

Additionally various bugs fixes and other small improvements are also included. Some code may need to have imports adjusted, and indices will need to be upgraded.

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Acknowledgements

The release of Terrier 4.0 was supported by the following projects and funding bodies

Terrier 3.6 - 03/04/2014

Substantial update: Provides numerous updates and fixes to issues in Terrier 3.5. This is primarily a bug-fix release clearing issues before the release of Terrier 4.0 that adds new functionality.

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Terrier 3.5 - 16/06/2011

Significant update: Added Document-at-a-time (DAAT) retrieval for large indices; Refactored tokenisation for enhanced multi-language support; Upgraded Hadoop support to version 0.20 (NB: Terrier now requires Java 1.6); Added synonym support in query language and retrieval; Added out-of-the-box indexing support for query-biased summaries and improved example web-based interface; Added new, 2nd generation DFR models as well as other recent effective information-theoretic effective models; Included many more JUnit tests (now 300+). Terrier 3.0 indices are compatible with Terrier 3.5.

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Terrier 3.0 - 10/03/2010

Major update: Support for indexing WARC collections; improved index structure layout; improved MapReduce mode indexing; refined, scalable structure access at retrieval time; moved all code to terrier.org namespace; added field-based and proximity term dependence models; added HTTP-based retrieval interface; added many JUnit tests. All indices must be rebuilt.

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Terrier 2.2.1 - 29/01/2009

Minor update - fixes some small bugs in 2.2 relating to MapReduce mode indexing, clarifies some documentation, and includes a missing source file.

Terrier 2.2 - 23/12/2008

Substantial update, consisting of new support for Hadoop, a Hadoop MapReduce indexing system, and various minor improvements and bug fixes. This is intended to be the ultimate release in the 2.x series.

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Terrier 2.1 - 19/03/2008

Minor update, containing mostly bug fixes, and a FileSystem abstraction layer.

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Terrier 2.0 - 04/01/2008

Major update, integrating a new (alternative) single-pass indexing architecture, and a new index format. Some bug fixes and some change of APIs.

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Terrier 1.1.1 - 24/10/2007

Minor update. Mostly bug fixes. Some minor code enhancements, plus the inclusion of a test harness. Snowball stemmers were added to boost support for languages other than English. This will likely be the last release in the 1.x.x series.

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Terrier 1.1.0 - 15/06/2007

Major update. Many changes to the source code, including more robust indexing and index structure merging.

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Indexing architecture has been updated for Terrier 1.1.0, however indices created with 1.1.0 are completely compatible with those created with 1.0.x, and vice-versa.

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Terrier 1.0.2 - 17/03/2005

Terrier 1.0.1 - 09/02/2005

Terrier 1.0.0 - 28/01/2005

Terrier 1.0 Beta2 - 22/11/2004

Terrier 1.0 Beta - 18/11/2004

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