Hi all,<div> I am Prajwal, a sophomore Undergraduate student from IIT Bombay, India. I want to contribute to Xapian through GSoC 2012.</div><div> Specifically I am interested in the Weighting Schemes project. I have not yet taken any IR related course, but IR and NLP have always been my academic interests. I want to learn more about these topics, and I think that this is the best opportunity to do so. I thus spent the last one week going through some articles related to IR and weighing schemes (the ones given in the XAPIAN page and from other internet sources). </div>
<div> I am very proficient in coding in C++,Java and Python. I am currently going through the documentation of the Xapian library. I wanted to know how I should go about reading and knowing more about the project (to make my theoretical background strong), and what I can possibly do to show that I am deserving for this project, before the application period begins.</div>
<div> Again as I said before, I want to make the maximum use of this opportunity to learn more about IR. I request you to browse through my website - <a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~prajwal">www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~prajwal</a> to have a look at my interests, and skills.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Thank you,</div>-- <br>Prajwal.A.N.<div><a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~prajwal" target="_blank">www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~prajwal</a><br>Sophomore Undergraduate Student,<br>Computer Science and Engineering,<br>
IIT Bombay.<br></div><br>
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