<div dir="ltr">Hey Parth, <div><br></div><div> Just for a quick introduction to the Xapian community, I am Tejas Nikumbh, Senior EE UG at IIT Bombay. My background is in C++, Machine Learning and programming in general.I'd like to be a part of Xapian's dev community and GSoC this year.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Thanks for the input. I also had a chat with Olly the other day, and as I had shown interest in the Weighting Schemes project as well, she suggested I go over some theorotical aspects of Information Retrieval and gave me generally good advice. I'm onto it. </div>
<div><br></div><div> I'll also be looking into the code base this weekend. Let me know if there are any other updates.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Parth Gupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pargup8@gmail.com" target="_blank">pargup8@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Tejas,</span><br style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px">
<br style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Thank you for your interest in Letor project in Xapian. We would definitely like to consider Letor for this year's GSoC project. </span><br style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px">
<br style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">What I would suggest you is, start playing with the code and get acquainted with it. </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The latest code can be obtained from </span><a href="http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC2012/LTR" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/<u style="padding:0px;margin:0px"></u>GSoC2012/LTR</a><br>
<br style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</span><br style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px">
<span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Parth.</span><br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Tejas Nikumbh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tejasnikumbh@gmail.com" target="_blank">tejasnikumbh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><br clear="all"></div>Hi Parth,<br><br></div> I saw your name on the mentors list. I'm currently pursuing my EE major (with a lot of CS electives) at IIT Bombay. I'm interested n contributing to Xapian as a whole. I was particularly interested in the Ranking schemes ideas like Weighing sums and Learning to Rank. I wanted to know how important these ideas are to the organization as a whole this year and whether or not they are of high priority from the point of view of GSoC. I've previously been associated with a contract development with Columbia/Stanford/Caltech and also have done an internship in data scrapping with TRDDC India. However, I've not done information retrieval in c++. You can check out my linked in profile here : - <a href="http://in.linkedin.com/pub/tejas-nikumbh/61/260/198" target="_blank">http://in.linkedin.com/pub/tejas-nikumbh/61/260/198</a><br>
<br></div> I've done some good algorithms based projects in c++. I haven't updated my github yet but will send you a link soon.<br><br></div> As far as opensource development is concerned, I have little experience. Although so, I'm really looking forward to contributing to it this year. I've started submitting patches to some bugs online, and would be looking into Xapians codebase soon. <br>
<br></div> Please let me know about what further steps I should take as of now to ensure that I maximize my chances of getting into GSoC. I'm already gone through Xapians tips page.<br><br>Thanks and let me know.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<div><br><div><div><div><div><div>-- <br><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#888888">Tejas Nikumbh,</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#888888">Fourth Year Undergraduate,</font></div><div style="text-align:left">
<font color="#888888">Electrical Engineering Department,</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#888888">IIT Bombay.</font></div>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#888888">Tejas Nikumbh,</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#888888">Third Year Undergraduate,</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><font color="#888888">Electrical Engineering Department,</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#888888">IIT Bombay.</font></div>
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