Hi,<div>Thanks Dan and Gaurav for the suggestion. It was interesting to read the project ideas and weighting schemes and learning to rank seemed interesting. I was familiar with unigram language modeling and BM25 and got a little more familiarity with the bigram language modeling referring to the project plan of Gaurav. I have gone through the basic project idea which tells that I need to implement some other weighting schemes like Divergence From Randomness. I have gone through the tutorial of Divergence from randomness and understood the theory. I would like to code and try out different urn randomness models. Can you suggest as to how to proceed for contributing in the weighting schemes project idea? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Abhishek Shah<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Dan Colish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dcolish@gmail.com" target="_blank">dcolish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The best place to start is with our help wanted page: <a href="http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/HelpWanted" target="_blank">http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/HelpWanted</a><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Dan</div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Abhishek Shah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:igeniusshah@gmail.com" target="_blank">igeniusshah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<div>My interest lies in primarily in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval and I would like to know how can I contribute to the organization and how should I begin. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div>
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