X-IOTA: An Open XML Framework for IR Experimentation Application on Multiple Weighting Scheme Tests in a Bilingual Corpus
Jean–Pierre Chevallet · 2004
Carrying out experiments in Information Retrieval is a heavy activity requiring fast tools to treat collections of significant size, and at the same time, flexible tools to leave the most possible freedom during the experimentation. System X-IOTA was developed to answer the cri- terion of flexibility and thus to support fast installation of various exper- iments using automatic natural language treatments. The architecture is designed to allow a distribution of computations among distributed servers. We use this framework to test different set of weighting partic- ularly the new Deviation from Randomness against Okapi.