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# 🔍 chatnoir-pyterrier
Use the ChatNoir search engine in PyTerrier.
Powered by the [`chatnoir-api`](https://pypi.org/project/chatnoir-api/) package.
## Installation
Install the package from PyPI:
```shell
pip install chatnoir-pyterrier
```
## Usage
You can use the `ChatNoirRetrieve` PyTerrier module in any PyTerrier pipeline, like you would do with `BatchRetrieve`.
```python
from chatnoir_pyterrier import ChatNoirRetrieve
api_key: str = "<API_KEY>"
chatnoir = ChatNoirRetrieve(api_key)
chatnoir.search("python library")
```
Please check out our [sample notebook](examples/search.ipynb) or [open it in Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/github/chatnoir-eu/chatnoir-pyterrier/blob/main/examples/search.ipynb).
### Touché 2023
Are you participating in Touché 2023 [task 1](https://touche.webis.de/clef23/touche23-web/argument-retrieval-for-controversial-questions.html) or [task 2](https://touche.webis.de/clef23/touche23-web/evidence-retrieval-for-causal-questions.html)?
We've prepared a [sample notebook](examples/search_touche_2023.ipynb) to show you how to retrieve from the ClueWeb22.
Get started by [opening it in Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/github/chatnoir-eu/chatnoir-pyterrier/blob/main/examples/search_touche_2023.ipynb).
## Citation
If you use this package, please cite the [paper](https://webis.de/publications.html#bevendorff_2018)
from the [ChatNoir](https://github.com/chatnoir-eu) authors.
You can use the following BibTeX information for citation:
```bibtex
@InProceedings{bevendorff:2018,
address = {Berlin Heidelberg New York},
author = {Janek Bevendorff and Benno Stein and Matthias Hagen and Martin Potthast},
booktitle = {Advances in Information Retrieval. 40th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2018)},
editor = {Leif Azzopardi and Allan Hanbury and Gabriella Pasi and Benjamin Piwowarski},
ids = {potthast:2018c,stein:2018c},
month = mar,
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
site = {Grenoble, France},
title = {{Elastic ChatNoir: Search Engine for the ClueWeb and the Common Crawl}},
year = 2018
}
```
## Development
To build and develop this package you need to install the `build` package:
```shell
pip install build
```
### Installation
Install package dependencies:
```shell
pip install -e .
```
### Testing
Install test dependencies:
```shell
pip install -e .[test]
```
Verify your changes against the test suite to verify.
```shell
flake8 chatnoir_pyterrier examples tests
pylint -E chatnoir_pyterrier examples tests
CHATNOIR_API_KEY="<API_KEY>" CHATNOIR_API_KEY_STAGING="<API_KEY>" pytest chatnoir_pyterrier examples tests
```
Please also add tests for your newly developed code.
### Build wheels
Wheels for this package can be built by:
```shell
python -m build
```
## License
This repository is released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).