Eckard, EmmanuelChappelier, Jean-Cédric2008-01-222008-01-222008-01-222007https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/16456The document provides an overview of the main Free ("Open Source") software of interest for research in Information Retrieval, as well as some background on the context. I provides a guideline for choosing appropriate tools.Free softwareOpen SourceInformation RetrievalTextual Clusteringtext::report