README.md

# Advanced Information Retrieval 2023 - Project - Group 20

This is our project for the course Advanced Information Retrieval 2023, TU Graz.
In this project, we use BERTopic to extract topic information from documents and queries and incorporate the topic information for re-ranking documents after the initial retrieval with BM25.

Authors: Gatternig Elias, Müller Hanna, Palasser Georg

[View Design Document](./design-document.pdf)

[View Presentation Slides](./slides.pdf)

## Dataset

We used the publicly available [CISI collection](https://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/resources/test_collections/cisi/) of the University of Glasgow, containing 1460 documents and 112 queries. It contains documents, queries and a "ground-truth" of query-document matchings.

## How to run

TODO: describe how to run our experiment(s)