release-notes-v0.9.4.0.md

Pyserini Release Notes (v0.9.4.0)

Release date: June 26, 2020

• Added bindings for TREC-COVID round 4 topics.
• Added new Qrels class in trectools submodule.
• Added new functionality to retain/discard docs by qrels in TrecRun.
• Added documentation on working with spaCy.
• Added documentation on how to index your own documents.
• Added documentation and scripts for working with the CORD-19 citation graph using Neo4j and Gephi.
• Refactored vectorizer into a submodule.
• Refactored verify_simplesearcher into integration tests.
• Improved MS MARCO documentation (now in pure Python, no more Java).
• Exposed Anserini bindings to read topics file using a specific class.

Contributors (This Release)

Sorted by number of commits:

• Jimmy Lin (lintool)
• Johnson Han (x65han)
• Hang Cui (HangCui0510)
• Xinyu Mavis Liu (x389liu)
• Marko Arezina (mrkarezina)

All Contributors

Sorted by number of commits, according to GitHub:

• Jimmy Lin (lintool)
• Johnson Han (x65han)
• Yuqi Liu (yuki617)
• Stephanie Hu (stephaniewhoo)
• Zeynep Akkalyoncu Yilmaz (zeynepakkalyoncu)
• Chris Kamphuis (Chriskamphuis)
• Pepijn Boers (PepijnBoers)
• Tommaso Teofili (tteofili)
• Hang Cui (HangCui0510)
• Rodrigo Nogueira (rodrigonogueira4)
• Marko Arezina (mrkarezina)
• Xinyu Mavis Liu (x389liu)
• Tim Hatch (thatch)
• Alireza Mirzaeiyan (amirzaeiyan)