<div dir="ltr">Hi Neil,<div><br></div><div>Please keep all the GSoC related communications on the xapian-devel</div><div>mailing list (<a href="https://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.xapian.org/mail<wbr>man/listinfo/xapian-devel</a>) so that</div><div>more people can add their inputs in response to your queries.</div><div><br></div><div>> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I would like to know how to start working towards a good proposal</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">> for implementing the advanced training method.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">You can find it in detail in the DBN paper which is linked in the resources</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">section of the project idea. But before going into such details, I would first</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">go through some literature on </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">click models to develop a good understanding</span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">of the things involved in </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">click-</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">stream mining and see how clickmodels are</span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">useful there.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Hope this helps.</span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Vivek</span></div><div> <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 7:25 AM, Neil Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:androneil54@gmail.com" target="_blank">androneil54@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<br>         I was looking through the project descriptions of possible Xapian SoC projects and really liked the one titled Learning to Rank Clickstream Data Mining<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​. I have an avid interest in ML and IR​, having done an ML related GSoC project last year as well under Green Navigation, and would like to go ahead with working on this project. Your name was mentioned in the list of possible mentors and hence I have contected you for further details</div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">         I would like to know how to start working towards a good proposal for implementing the advanced training method. </div></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Thank You.</div></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Indraneil Paul</div></div></div>
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