<div dir="ltr">Thanks,this really helped<div>Abraham</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Olly Betts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olly@survex.com" target="_blank">olly@survex.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:56:20PM +0530, Abraham Sebastian wrote:<br>
> My name is Abraham and I am a 2nd year college student from<br>
> Bangalore(India). I was going through your list of project ideas, and the<br>
> Learning to Rank project really interested me . Unfortunately I don't<br>
> really have any real experience with "Information Retrieval" and only know<br>
> the basics of "Machine Learning". I was hoping that somebody could maybe<br>
> point me in the right direction so as to be able to gather the knowledge<br>
> required for this project. Also where would I need to begin to begin<br>
> understanding the code?<br>
<br>
</div></div>There are some useful links in the "Resources" section of the project<br>
idea:<br>
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<a href="http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:LearningtoRank" target="_blank">http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:LearningtoRank</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
Olly<br>
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