Retail Search - Phase 1 data

Indexed Data

The indexed documents are short aerospace research records from the Cranfield collection. Good searches are technical phrases about aerodynamics, aircraft structures, pressure, flow, heat transfer, boundary layers, airfoils, wings, drag, lift, stability, and wind tunnel measurements.

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1,400documents

225evaluation queries

1,837qrels

title3x boost

abstract2x boost

Searchable fields

title (3x)Highest-weight field for concise paper titles.

abstract (2x)Medium-weight field for report summaries.

text (1x)Full searchable text assembled from the Cranfield record.

dataset (filter)Keeps Phase 1 results scoped to Cranfield.

source (metadata)Identifies the public corpus source.

Good topics to search

wings
airfoils
boundary layers
pressure distribution
heat transfer
supersonic flow
wind tunnels
lift and drag
stability
aeroelasticity

Source reference

Cranfield collection Glasgow Cranfield test collection

Classic information retrieval collection with aeronautics documents, queries, and relevance judgments. Phase 1 indexes the 1,400-document collection.