Sean MacAvaney

Hey @Taosheng-ty, This issue should probably go to the https://github.com/usnistgov/trec_eval repository instead. But the difference between the options is: `-M k` cuts off the run at rank `k` -- but...

Awesome, I like this approach a lot. It seems like a perfect compromise that allows the files to be downloaded from the original source (or obtained through the proper channels,...

There are several options. How big do you expect the offset files to be? They might be able to fit on mirror.ir-datasets.com (hosted via a github site): https://github.com/seanmacavaney/irds-mirror/ If not,...

I'd expect that modifying the following `topk_queue` method to consider DocId would solve this issue, but I am not sure about the efficiency implications, or if other places need to...

Whoops, actually more like: ```c return lhs.first == rhs.first ? lhs.second < rhs.second : lhs.first > rhs.first; ```

That sounds fair to me; I agree that every statement matters during the query processing itself. The one caveat is that if there happens to be a tied score at...

Sounds good to me! Thanks @elshize!

I do not understand the problem here. Why can't it just accept either: (1) a single field name, or (2) a list of field names. I think the "ELSE" stuff...

So I think I do understand the design of fields themselves in Terrier. They're built to handle markup, e.g., it could be configured to handle: ``` A B C A...

It seems relatively straightforward to handle the above requirements with a single parameter: - If it's a `str`, index a single attribute and map it to a field of the...