Tentative class definitions

Definition of the classes and what properties they have.

Documents

• UnprocessedDocument

  • Document name
  • Raw HTML

• Document

  • Document name
  • Term occurence map

• DocumentReader

  • Used for reading file(s) to produce UnprocessedDocument objects

Queries

• UnprocessedQuery

  • Query id
  • Raw querystring

• Query

  • Query id
  • Query terms

• QueryReader

  • Used for reading query file to produce UnprocessedQuery objects

Processing

• TermProcessor

  • Used by the QueryProcessor and the DocumentProcessor classes for the same strategy term-by-term processing

• QueryProcessor

  • Used for converting UnprocessedQuery objects to Query objects

• DocumentProcessor

  • Used for converting UnprocessedDocument objects to Document objects

Relevance computing

To be discussed