Easy steps to install trec_eval package on Mac

Package Information:

Application Name – trec_eval
What is trec_eval – trec_eval is the standard tool used by the TREC community for evaluating an ad hoc retrieval run, given the results file and a standard set of judged results.
Use of trec_eval – Evaluation software used in the Text Retrieval Conference
URL – https://trec.nist.gov/

Installation Steps:

  1. Open Terminal using Spotlight search by pressing  <command+space>. Type terminal and hit  Enter  key.
  2. spotlight search terminal

  3. Now, run following command to install homebrew (brew)
  4. ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

    Homebrew Install Command Screenshot

  5. Install trec_eval using brew
    brew install trec_eval

trec_eval  is ready to use now!