[jll29]

Did you publish any of it? Your work, as painful as it sounds, is very valuable. While some papers do not replicate, more authors than ever release papers, code and models together.

Nowadays, conferences such as ECIR (European Conference on Information Retrieval) have reproducability tracks that seek such work, and reward your kind of efforts with getting a peer reviewed publication. The results are often not "can be" or "cannot be" replicated, but more nuanced, and often interactions with the original authors are needed as space in publications is limited.

On a related note, giving a paper to a Ph.D. student to replicate is a pretty good warm-up exercise to get started, specially when combined with writing a survey article on a field (so that the week has a balance between "reading and doing"!

[krageon]

I cannot publish it, it has been done under NDA. It's nice of you to say so, I think you may be the first person to tell me this.