UB_InformationRetrieval

Information Retrieval project at UB

This project aims to build a fully functional News Search Engine solely in Java with the following goals.

1. Parse 11,000 news articles with minimal markup and Index them.
2. Create multiple indexes on the news articles as well as the metadata.
3. Implement a Query Parser that can parse free text into structured query terms.
4. Implement a Querying mechanism that can ingest query terms and find matching documents.
5. Implement two popular scoring mechanisms to rank retrieved documents.