Hi!<br>I am Praveen Kumar, an Applied Mathematics student and I am interested in developing other weighting schemes for Xapian through GSOC.<br>I did not have any formal course in Information Retrieval in our institute. The theory that I presently know is <br>
from the Xapian documentations and other references and resources mentioned on the website which I read <br>to design our own Probabilistic Information Retrieval framework while working on a project for our institute in which we have to <br>
design a Crawler, Indexer and a Query Processor. <br> The question that was put was that should we use Xapian to avoid re-inventing the wheel or write our own code to learn Information Retrieval Systems.<br>Our mentor ruled in the favor of writing our own code in python. The project is only 18 days old and I have finished writing the crawler and working on indexer.<br>
My happiness knew no bounds when I saw Xapian in the list of selected organisations for GSOC. I have contributed to Open Source only in<br>reporting bugs and writing documentation diffs. I wish to contribute to Xapian in a major way.<br>
Presently I am studying various weighting schemes that Xapian can be extended to. I hope the Xapian Community helps me in this journey.<br><br>Thank You<br>Praveen Kumar<br>Int. M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics<br>Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India <br>