[Xapian-devel] Weighting Schemes

[Praveen Kumar]

Hi!
I am Praveen Kumar, an Applied Mathematics student  and I am interested in
developing other weighting schemes for Xapian through GSOC.
I did not have any formal course in Information Retrieval in our institute.
The theory that I presently know is
from the Xapian documentations and other references and resources mentioned
on the website which I read
to design our own Probabilistic Information Retrieval framework while
working on a project for our institute in which we have to
design a Crawler, Indexer and a Query Processor.
    The question that was put was that should we use Xapian to avoid
re-inventing the wheel or write our own code to learn Information Retrieval
Systems.
Our mentor ruled in the favor of writing our own code in python. The project
is only 18 days old and I have finished writing the crawler and working on
indexer.
     My happiness knew no bounds when I saw Xapian in the list of selected
organisations for GSOC. I have contributed to Open Source only in
reporting bugs and writing documentation diffs. I wish to contribute to
Xapian in a major way.
    Presently I am studying various weighting schemes that Xapian can be
extended to. I hope the Xapian Community helps me in this journey.

Thank You
Praveen Kumar
Int. M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
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