<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Osho,<br><br></div>You should be able to start with the Learning-to-Rank project by the instructions given at the Project Ideas page. The latest repository of the code is at: <a href="https://github.com/rishabhmehrotra/xapian">https://github.com/rishabhmehrotra/xapian</a><br>
<br></div><div>Also some recent discussions on the Xapian-devel mining lest may also be of interest.<br></div><div><br></div>If you have any questions, feel free to ask.<br><br></div>Cheers,<br></div>Parth.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Osho Gupta B.Tech., ECE, IIT-BHU, Varanasi (INDIA) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osho.gupta.ece11@iitbhu.ac.in" target="_blank">osho.gupta.ece11@iitbhu.ac.in</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>Sir,</div><div><br></div><div>I am an Undergraduate student of <b>Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. "IIT-V"</b>. I am pursuing my B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering, currently in the 3rd year.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have a keen interest in the field of <b>Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval</b>. Also I have worked a lot upon fields like NLP, Speech Synthesis-Recognition and Processing, Image and Video Processing, Machine Learning and Neural Networks. What I found after working in all these is ML is common to all and suits my interest.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have done online courses on Machine Learning (by Andrew NG), and Introduction to NLP (by Dan Jurafsky and Christopher Manning). I have done various projects on Machine Learning including implementation of <b>Neural Networks, SVM, CRF, PCA, etc</b> and have deep knowledge in these fields.</div>
<div>Currently, I am engaged in a research Project over <b>NLP (Temporal analysis of Tweets)</b>, under guidance of <b>Dr. Judith Gelerenter, Carnegie Mellon University</b>, since October 2013 which is soon going to complete and our work will be made open source after its completion this project involved use of machine learning methods like <b>SVM and CRF for NLP</b>. </div>
<div>Last summer I did an internship in Korea on Speech Processing which involved neural networks for Speech recognition. Also, I am learning Deep Learning for my interest. I am efficient coder in <b>C, C++, Python and Matlab/Octave.</b></div>
<div><br></div><div>I am a self-motivated student and I am very interested in contributing more and more in field of ML and IR. Now, I want to do some open source contributions and GSOC is the best platform to do so. I would like to sincerely contribute to Ranking section of Xapian</div>
<div><br></div><div>I saw the Ideas list of Xapian and these two projects under <b>Ranking</b> category cathced my eye. I am particularly interested in <b>Project: Learning to Rank</b>. Machine learning is core field of my interest and I am good at it.</div>
<div>This seems to be a great project to get hands on experience in ML and IR, with contributing to open source. By my past experiences I am trained to work alone under mentorship, and I will give my 100% sincere efforts in completing whichever task I am given up.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please help me on how should I proceed for GSoC.</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b>-<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Osho Gupta</font></b></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b> 3rd Year, B.Tech. </b><b>,</b></font></div>
<div><b><font face="garamond, serif"> Department of Electronics Engineering,</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, serif"> Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University,</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, serif"> Varanasi, India</font></b></div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div><b><font face="times new roman, serif"> Contact no.: <a href="tel:%2B918604221858" value="+918604221858" target="_blank">+918604221858</a></font></b></div><div><b><font face="times new roman, serif"> Email ID:</font> </b><b><a href="mailto:osho.gupta.ece11@iitbhu.ac.in" target="_blank">osho.gupta.ece11@iitbhu.ac.in</a></b></div>
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