Indri Named Prior Table Builder

This application builds a named prior table for a collection of documents and installs it within an Indri Repository. Parameter formats for all Indri applications are also described in IndriParameters.html

Prior table construction parameters

index

path to an Indri Repository. Specified as <index>/path/to/repository</index> in the parameter file and as -index=/path/to/repository on the command line.

name

The name for this prior. Specified as <name>PriorName</name> in the parameter file and as -name=PriorName on the command line.

input

path to the input file for this prior. The input file should contain a list of entries containing first an external document id and second a log probability value. There should be one entry per line of the file. Specified as <input>/path/to/inputfile</input> in the parameter file and as -input=/path/to/inputfile on the command line.

memory

an integer value specifying the number of bytes to use for the table building process. The value can include a scaling factor by adding a suffix. Valid values are (case insensitive) K = 1000, M = 1000000, G = 1000000000. So 100M would be equivalent to 100000000. The value should contain only decimal digits and the optional suffix. Specified as <memory>100M</memory> in the parameter file and as -memory=100M on the command line.

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