Hi, I'm planning to do some information retrieval experiments with Solr. I'd like to compare different IR methods. I have a test collection with topics and judgements available. I'm considering using Solr (and not Lemur/Indri etc.) for the tests, because Solr supports several nice methods out-of-the-box, e.g. n-grams.
Finally, I plan to evaluate the different methods and their results with trec_eval or similar program. What I need is a program, which puts Solr results in a suitable format for trec_eval. I think I can get the Solr search results in that format quite easily by using the solr-php-client library. Have any of you run "TREC-style" IR experiments with Solr and what are your experiences with that? Do you have any suggestion for that kind of tests with Solr? Kind regards, Ismo
