release-notes-v0.9.0.0.md

Pyserini Release Notes (v0.9.0.0)

Release date: April 18, 2020

• Exposed query generators in Python as an optional argument for SimpleSearcher.
• Exposed topic reader and topics for TREC-COVID.
• Exposed approximate nearest neighbor search capabilities in Anserini with SimpleNearestNeighborSearcher.
• Improved API for accessing docs in SimpleSearcher and IndexReaderUtils.
• Refactored to keep up with underlying Anserini API changes.

Contributors (This Release)

Sorted by number of commits:

• Jimmy Lin (lintool)
• Tommaso Teofili (tteofili)
• Rodrigo Nogueira (rodrigonogueira4)

All Contributors

Sorted by number of commits, according to GitHub:

• Jimmy Lin (lintool)
• Zeynep Akkalyoncu Yilmaz (zeynepakkalyoncu)
• Tommaso Teofili (tteofili)
• Chris Kamphuis (Chriskamphuis)
• Pepijn Boers (PepijnBoers)
• Rodrigo Nogueira (rodrigonogueira4)
• Alireza Mirzaeiyan (amirzaeiyan)