[minthd]

Why aren't academics just hosting in the cloud ?

[chatman]

Here's an initiative by Jimmy Lin to standardize implementations of IR used in Academia. Reproducibility of results is now made possible: https://github.com/lintool/IR-Reproducibility

[lunactic]

many different reasons:

- no time

- no incentives (publish and perish)

- no knowledge

- usage of very different programming languages

- no platform to do this

[zorked]

Why aren't they just publishing the source?