Hello Everyone,<br><br>I am looking forward to contribute to Xapian and also apply as a Google Summer of Code student. I would like to start by introducing myself. I am a final year M.Sc.(H) Chemistry and B.E. (H) Electronics and Instrumentation student at BITS - Pilani, Goa. I am interested in Machine Learning and presently pursuing my thesis on the same. I have been selected for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) twice. During GSoC -11, I worked for the Centre for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan on making evolutionary model for swarms (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/cscs-repast-demos/wiki/Mudit" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/cscs-repast-demos/wiki/Mudit</a>) and last summer, GSoC - 12, I worked on making HLA interfaces for The network simulator - 3 to aid ns-3 in distributed simulation (<a href="http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/GSOC2012HLA" target="_blank">http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/GSOC2012HLA</a>). My first-degree thesis last semester was on computational cognitive modelling of artificial investors(<a href="http://code.google.com/p/multiagent-reinforcement-learning/downloads/list" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/multiagent-reinforcement-learning/downloads/list</a>). This semester I am working on the use of probabilistic algorithms for dynamic gesture recognition. My googlecode profile can be found here (<a href="http://code.google.com/u/110675325175605367090/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/u/110675325175605367090/</a> ) and my linkedIn profile can be found here (<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=79832898&trk=tab_pro" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=79832898&trk=tab_pro</a>)<br>
<br>I am interested in "Learning To Rank" project. If I am not wrong, I found the framework incorporated by Parth in the cloned code. It needed some refactoring in order to incorporate more algorithms and was done by Rishabh and available in his git repo (<a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/rishabhmehrotra/xapian">https://github.com/rishabhmehrotra/xapian</a>) but is still not merged. So, I assume I should think of additions to the code in Rishbh's repo. Moreover, I noticed that SVM-rank, ListMLE and ListNet is already present in the code. I am interested in addition of a random forest approach and looking for appropriate libraries. I would be great to get input by the Xapian community in terms of preference of algorithms and open source libraries. It would also be great to know the priority of the Letor project to the Xapian community. <br>
<br>Any further pointers/links related to the "Letor" project would be appreciated. Thank you for your time. <br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Mudit Raj Gupta <br>