Lemur Toolkit Documentation (Version 2.1)
(Older versions: 1.0, 1.1, 1.9.x, 2.0.x)
Overview
A description of the organization and design of the system, including the major classes and how they interact within the indexing, retrieval, and language modeling framework.
Installing and Running Lemur
Step-by-step instructions on how to compile, configure and test the toolkit.
Lemur Applications User's Guide
Documentation for all of the Lemur applications.
Lemur Tutorials, step-by-step guides
Tutorial style threads on how to prepare documents for parsing and indexing using Lemur. These tutorials are in progress. (In other words, some links don't work yet..but we're working on it.) Feedback on what topics would be most helpful and how to improve the format is most welcome.
Lemur Beginner's Guide FAQ
A Q/A beginner's guide to indexing and retrieval with Lemur. This guide is in progress. Feedback on how to make it more helpful is most welcome.
Lemur API User's Guides:
Basic Lemur Indexing and Retrieval API
Documentation for the Application Program Interface, which allows users to build customized retrieval applications using language modeling or other methods.Parsing in Lemur
An overview of the parsing utilities provided in the toolkit, which can be chained or pipelined together.Summarization
Overview and description of classes for general automatic summary generation, using basic sentence selection and MMR.Distributed Retrieval
Description of classes for database ranking, distributed retrieval, and merging of scores.Query-based Sampling
The query-based sampling utility classes and application for creating descriptions of and sampling from text databases.Structured Query Language
Utility clases and applications making use of InQuery style structured query language, including proximity operators
Source Code Documentation
Automatically generated documentation for all of the source code.
Public Forum
This forum is for the users and developers of the Lemur toolkit to discuss the software. Feel free to share tips on using Lemur as well as to ask questions. The developers of the toolkit monitor this forum on a regular basis.
The Lemur Project Last modified: Tue Nov 25 11:39:36 EST 2003