Namespace Lucene.Net.Benchmarks.Quality

Search Quality Benchmarking.

This package allows to benchmark search quality of a Lucene application.

In order to use this package you should provide:

For benchmarking TREC collections with TREC QRels, take a look at the trec package.

Here is a sample code used to run the TREC 2006 queries 701-850 on the .Gov2 collection:

    File topicsFile = new File("topics-701-850.txt");
    File qrelsFile = new File("qrels-701-850.txt");
    IndexReader ir = DirectoryReader.open(directory):
    IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(ir);

int maxResults = 1000;
    String docNameField = "docname"; 

    PrintWriter logger = new PrintWriter(System.out,true); 

// use trec utilities to read trec topics into quality queries
    TrecTopicsReader qReader = new TrecTopicsReader();
    QualityQuery qqs[] = qReader.readQueries(new BufferedReader(new FileReader(topicsFile)));

    // prepare judge, with trec utilities that read from a QRels file
    Judge judge = new TrecJudge(new BufferedReader(new FileReader(qrelsFile)));

    // validate topics & judgments match each other
    judge.validateData(qqs, logger);

    // set the parsing of quality queries into Lucene queries.
    QualityQueryParser qqParser = new SimpleQQParser("title", "body");

    // run the benchmark
    QualityBenchmark qrun = new QualityBenchmark(qqs, qqParser, searcher, docNameField);
    SubmissionReport submitLog = null;
    QualityStats stats[] = qrun.execute(maxResults, judge, submitLog, logger);

    // print an avarage sum of the results
    QualityStats avg = QualityStats.average(stats);
    avg.log("SUMMARY",2,logger, "  ");

Some immediate ways to modify this program to your needs are:

To run on different formats of queries and judgements provide your own Judge and Quality queries.
Create sophisticated Lucene queries by supplying a different Quality query parser.

Classes

QualityBenchmark

Main entry point for running a quality benchmark.

There are two main configurations for running a quality benchmark:

Against existing judgements.
For submission (e.g. for a contest).

The first configuration requires a non null IJudge. The second configuration requires a non null SubmissionReport.

QualityQuery

A QualityQuery has an ID and some name-value pairs.

The ID allows to map the quality query with its judgements.

The name-value pairs are used by a IQualityQueryParser to create a Lucene Lucene.Net.Search.Query.

It is very likely that name-value-pairs would be mapped into fields in a Lucene query, but it is up to the QualityQueryParser how to map - e.g. all values in a single field, or each pair as its own field, etc., - and this of course must match the way the searched index was constructed.

QualityStats

Results of quality benchmark run for a single query or for a set of queries.

QualityStats.RecallPoint

A certain rank in which a relevant doc was found.

Interfaces

IJudge

Judge if a document is relevant for a quality query.

IQualityQueryParser

Parse a QualityQuery into a Lucene query.