Open source information retrieval
Andrew Trotman, Charles L. A. Clarke, Iadh Ounis, J. Shane Culpepper, Marc-Allen Cartright, Shlomo Geva · ACM SIGIR Forum · 2012
On August 16, 2012 the SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval was held as part of the SIGIR 2012 conference in Portland, Oregon, USA. There were 2 invited talks, one from industry and one from academia. There were 6 full papers and 6 short papers presented as well as demonstrations of 4 open source tools. Finally there was a lively discussion on future directions for the open source Information Retrieval community. This contribution discusses the events of the workshop and outlines future directions for the community.