In this course we do coding in Python. You will need to have a working Python interpreter on your machine. If you need to install a new one, we recommend using Anaconda (https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual). If you do not have one already, we recommend installing a Python IDE, such as Pycharm (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/).
You will need to install the following python packages: nltk, trectools trectools will need to be install by pip, even if you are using conda.
The gov folder contains 3 sub directories:
• documents, the collection of documents in the corpus that we will search over.
• topics, the list of queries to be run on this corpus.
• qrels, ground truth labels of which documents are relevant to which queries, created by
manual annotation.
You are now ready to begin assignment 1.