<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">         I am Indraneil Paul, a final year Computer Science student at IIIT Hyderabad. I wish to work on the project Learning to Rank: Clickstream Data Mining. <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 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.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><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">         </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><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">         In order to get a basic understanding of clickstream mining I have studied a few links:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><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">1. An introductory blog post (<a href="https://www.blendo.co/blog/clickstream-data-mining-techniques-introduction/">https://www.blendo.co/blog/clickstream-data-mining-techniques-introduction/</a>)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><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">2. A more thorough review (<a href="https://clickmodels.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/2/5/52257029/mc2015-clickmodels.pdf">https://clickmodels.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/2/5/52257029/mc2015-clickmodels.pdf</a>)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><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">     </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><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 start corresponding with potential mentors regarding a viable set of timed realistic goals w.r.t. implementing an end-to-end learning to rank model and/or implementing the EM based training method for the DBN model. It would be great if I could get some pointers regarding how to go about this next.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><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">Thank You,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><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">Indraneil Paul</span></div></div>