LEMUR PROJECT

The Lemur Project's software development philosophy emphasizes state-of-the-art accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency. For example, the Indri search engine provides accurate search for large text collections 'out of the box', and data is stored in an accessible manner to support development of new retrieval strategies. Software from the Lemur Project is distributed under open-source licenses that provide flexibility to scientists and software developers... The Lemur Project was started in 2000 by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University. Over the years, a large number of UMass and CMU students and staff have contributed to the project. The project's first product was the Lemur Toolkit, a collection of software tools and search engines designed to support research on using statistical language models for information retrieval tasks. Later the project..

Also known as: The Lemur Project