Re: [Tracker] Performance analyzing team - help

[Michele Mattioni <mattions gmail com>]

Il giorno ven, 23/02/2007 alle 17.41 +0100, Alberto ha scritto:
> Hi!
> My name is Alberto and I'm a student of Informatic Engeneering of
> Univerity of Padua in Italy.
> I belong to a team that must analyse the performance of Tracker (with
> trec_eval and the standard collection to analyze performance) and I
> would like to ask if you can give me some technical information about
> this desktop search.
> Can you answer to the following questions?
> Thank you very much!
>
>
>
> CONFIGURATION
> Indexing: complete or incremental?
> Application Log: Yes or No?
> Dependences: 
>
> FEATURES
> Text documents: mono-language or multilanguage?
> Multimedia documents: Yes or No? (Type, layout)
> Codification: ASCII-7. ASCII-8, UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32?
> Layout of text: type (pdf, ps, rtf, txt,....)
> Maximum permitted size of a document: 
> Compression: Yes or No?
> Standard Scheme ID: DOI or URI?
> Collection : is it known?...or is it a web collection?
> Multi-collection: Yes or No?
> Layout: how does tracker give user the resultant data?
>
> INDEXING - Structured data
> Type: What are structured data managed by tracker? (I mean meta-data
> like title, author, ...)
> Authority file: is it maked?
>
> INDEXING - Supported features
> Keyword: Yes or no?
> Terms: Yes or no?
> Stemming: Yes or no?
> Weight: Yes or no?
> Stop list: absent or static or configurable?
>
> INDEX
> Vocabulary: size (referred to using of RAM and HD)
> Management of Synonymy: Yes or no? 
> Management of Polysemy: Yes or no?
> Order: Yes or no?
> Level: 1/2/3/4.....
>
> FEEDBACK
> Relevance feedback: explicit or implicit?
> Query expansion: Yes or no? (if yes, what type?) 
>
> QUERIES
> Interface: for example: cgi, desktop interface,.....
> Language: specific or natural language?
> Help on-line: Yes or no?
> Language: mono-language, multi-language or cross-language?
> Session: Yes or no?
> Personalization: Yes or no?
>
>
> I need this answering quite early if you can help me....
> Thank you very much!
> If you are interested about our work, at the end of the project of
> analyzing, I can send you the results and the paper.
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Alberto 

Hi, 
The list is pretty long and most of the questions are already answered
on the website. http://tracker-project.org

Could you plz try to figure out most of them from the website, and
report what's missing?

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Michele.