<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sir,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am a 4th yr undergraduate student pursuing my BTech in CSE at IIIT Hyderbad, India.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am interested in applying for Xapian in Gsoc 2014. I had gone through this year's idea page and interested in applying for 'posting list encoding improvements' project.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am good at C/C++,python; which is one of the requirement. I had done gone through the information Retrieval and Extraction course and done projects like 'Wikipedia Search Engine' and 'Learning to Advertise (search engine advertising)'.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Can someone please give me some guidance to get started.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Anurag Soni,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">IIIT Hyderabad. </div>
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