I agree that the Ponte-Croft model is hardly used. We never really used it, but more importantly it is hardly used in recent language modelling papers. In fact, the Hiemstra model is much more effective, and is more suitable as a QL baseline. Therefore, I agree that the presence of the Ponte-Croft model in the Terrier core is not really needed.
I'm however more inclined to move it from the core to a common package (where it can peacefully die --hummm, I meant stagnate), i.e. I vote for option (b) above. We never know: we might need it for something one day.
I agree that we need unit testing for it though.
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I agree that the Ponte-Croft model is hardly used. We never really used it, but more importantly it is hardly used in recent language modelling papers. In fact, the Hiemstra model is much more effective, and is more suitable as a QL baseline. Therefore, I agree that the presence of the Ponte-Croft model in the Terrier core is not really needed.
I'm however more inclined to move it from the core to a common package (where it can peacefully die --hummm, I meant stagnate), i.e. I vote for option (b) above. We never know: we might need it for something one day.
I agree that we need unit testing for it though.