CMPT 456 Course Project 1 Due: 11:59 pm, July 17, 2020 100 points in total Please submit your assignment in Coursys. Every student has to complete the project independently. While you are encouraged to learn through discussion with the instructor, the TAs and the peer students, any plagiarisms are serious violation of the university’s academic integrity policy. We have absolutely zero tolerance of such behavior. This project will introduce you to working with the Lucene library. We will help you to walk through a common codebase we have built in order to help you get familiar with Lucene library as much as possible. Codebase ● The codebase is already in our GitLab at https://csil-git1.cs.surrey.sfu.ca/pia5/cmpt456- project1-starter-code . ● You should be able to clone it to your own workspace in order to do the programming tasks described in the next sections. ● For this assignment, we use the latest version of Lucene, branch 6.6 (6.6.7), with Java 8. You can check its detail API here: https://lucene.apache.org/core/6_6_6/index.html ● The codebase is a fork from Lucene/Solr open source code (https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr) with some customizations in order to allow you to run it inside a Docker environment (https://www.docker.com/). So, you need to have Docker installed on your machine. The CSIL computers have been equipped with Docker already, so feel free to use them. ● The purpose of having Lucene/Solr running inside a Docker container is to help you work on this assignment using mostly any OS you prefer, Linux, Mac or Windows. If you are curious about how the Docker container is built, look at the Dockerfile in the source code. Project Data ● We are going to use Wiki Small data (6043 documents) from our textbook . Take a look at to know how it look like. ● We have included the data for you, within the codebase at location lucene/demo/data. In the subsequent sections, you will use it in to demonstrate indexing and querying process. Compiling ● Checkout the codebase to local machine with git command: git clone https://csil-git1.cs.surrey.sfu.ca/pia5/cmpt456-project1-starter-code . cd cmpt456-project1-starter-code ● Build Docker image from the source code (make sure that we have. (i.e. current location) at the end of the command): docker build -t cmpt456-lucene-solr:6.6.7. NOTE: Since Docker is not available free for Windows OS, we recommend you use VirtualBox with Ubuntu OS or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) ● Run the Docker image we just built in order to activate the Docker container: docker run -it cmpt456-lucene-solr:6.6.7 Demo In this section, we help you to get familiar with Lucene basic components by running 2 simple programs: ● Index Files: this program uses standard analyzers to create tokens from input text files, convert them to lowercase then filer out predefined list of stop-words. The source code is stored in this file within the codebase: lucene/demo/src/java/org/apache/lucene/demo/IndexFiles.java Index demo data with the following command inside the Docker container: ant -f lucene/demo/build.xml \ -Ddocs=lucene/demo/data/wiki-small/en/articles/ run-indexing-demo ● Search Files: this program uses a query parser to parse the input query text, then pass to the index searcher to look for matching results. The source code is stored in this file within the codebase: lucene/demo/src/java/org/apache/lucene/demo/SearchFiles.java Search demo data with the following command inside the Docker container: ant -f lucene/demo/build.xml run-search-index-demo You are expected to run these examples, understand Lucene components used in the indexing and querying process in order to make further extensions in the below programming tasks. Text Parsing (30 pts) In the first part of the assignment, you will learn how to use Lucene to build search capabilities for documents in various formats, such as HTML, XML, PDF, Word. In fact, Lucene does not care about the parsing of these and other document formats, and it is the responsibility of the application using Lucene to use an appropriate parser to convert the original format into plain text before passing that plain text to Lucene. In the class IndexFiles.java within the Demo section, you can see that it indexes the content of html files, including all html tags (e.g., , ,
). In this section, we want you to create a new class called HtmlIndexFiles.java to: ● Use a HTML parser to parse input files to extract the title and text content only of the HTML files. Text content should not contain any HTML tags. ● Use standard analyzers to create tokens from the result of parser, convert them to lowercase then filter out based on a predefined list of stop-words (similar to the way IndexFiles.java works) Hint: there is an already implemented HTML parser in this class org.apache.lucene.benchmark.byTask.feeds.DemoHTMLParser Tokenization (30 pts) In the second part of the assignment, you will experience how plain text passed to Lucene for indexing goes through a process generally called tokenization. Tokenization is the process of breaking input text into small indexing elements – tokens. The way input text is broken into tokens heavily influences how people will then be able to search for that text. As you have seen in the IndexFiles.java, we have used class StandardAnalyzer in order to control the tokenization process. Look at its source code, you can see this class extends the createComponents method to build a standard tokenization process to convert tokens to lowercase then filer out based on a predefined list of stop-words. In this section, we want you to create a class called CMPT456Analyzer.java to control the tokenization process as follows: ● Create a stopwords.txt to keep all our custom stop words. You can use the stopwords list from the textbook: http://www.search-engines-book.com/data/stopwords ● Convert tokens to lowercase then filter out based on our custom stopwords list ● Use a Porter stemmer for stemming Hint: Porter stemmer is already implemented in Lucene. Make use of it. Similarity Metrics (40 pts) In the last part of the assignment, you will have chance to touch one of the core modules of querying process which is the ranking module. When user issues a query, Lucene will use index created during the indexing process to look for matching documents. More importantly, these matching documents will be sorted by a customizable ranking function before returning the final results to the user. Before asking you to implement a ranking function, we want you to make use of Lucene to compute some basic metrics: ● Document Frequency: Returns the number of documents containing the term. ● Term Frequency: Returns the total number of occurrences of the term across all documents (the sum of the freq() for each doc that has this term). You need to create a SimpleMetrics.java program to demonstrate how you can find the above tow metric scores for a given term. Hint: Make use of IndexReader (http://lucene.apache.org/core/6_6_6/core/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.html#total TermFreq%28org.apache.lucene.index.Term%29) Next, we want you to implement a custom ranking/similarity function base on TFIDFSimilarity (https://lucene.apache.org/core/6_6_6/core/org/apache/lucene/search/similarities/TFIDFSimil arity.html) provided by Lucene. In particular, you need to create a class called CMPT456Similarity.java to support custom tf() and idf() as follows: ( ∈ ) = (1 + )!/# () = 1 + 5 + 2 + 2 9 Hint: Extend class ClassicSimilarity (https://lucene.apache.org/core/6_6_6/core/org/apache/lucene/search/similarities/ClassicSimi larity.html) instead of directly implementing TFIDFSimilarity The next thing we want you to do is to alter the way Lucene scoring. You will need to create TFIDFHtmlIndexFiles.java and TFIDFSearchFiles.java in which you want to use CMPT456Similarity for your indexing & querying process. Hint: take a look at this to learn how to change the similarity scoring: https://lucene.apache.org/core/6_6_6/core/org/apache/lucene/search/similarities/package- summary.html#changingSimilarity Submit Your Assignment The assignment must be submitted online at https://coursys.sfu.ca. You need to submit the following files: 1. HtmlIndexFiles.java 2. CMPT456Analyzer.java 3. SimpleMetrics.java 4. CMPT456Similarity.java 5. TFIDFHtmlIndexFiles.java 6. TFIDFSearchFiles.java
