Terrier Search Engine

Terrier is software that tackles the problem of information access and in particular information retrieval. It aims to tackle the rapid development of Web, intranet and desktop search engines. More generally, it is a modular platform for the rapid development of large-scale information retrieval applications, providing indexing and retrieval functionalities.

Terrier was developed by members of the Information Retrieval Research Group, Department of Computing Science, at the University of Glasgow.

A core version of Terrier is available as open source software under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), with the aim to facilitate experimentation and research in the wider information retrieval community.

Terrier is written in Java.*

Bibliography

• Terrier: A High Performance and Scalable Information Retrieval Platform (pdf) - Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, and Christina Lioma. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR'06 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval (OSIR 2006). 10 August, 2006. Seattle, Washington, USA.
• University of Glasgow at TREC 2006: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier (pdf)- Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Vassilis Plachouras, Jie Peng, Ben He and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of the 15th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2006.
• University of Glasgow at TREC 2005: Experiments in Terabyte and Enterprise Tracks with Terrier(pdf)- Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis Plachouras and Iadh Ounis. In Proceedings of the 14th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2005.

External links

• Terrier Project