[Xapian-devel] GSoC Term Weighting project

[Chris Hokamp]

Hi everyone,

I'm a graduate student in Linguistics and Computer Science in the US, and
I'm planning to propose a project to Xapian for GSoC that would implement
and evaluate a variety of weighting schemes and ranking methods, allowing
users to select different combinations. I have pretty thorough knowledge IR
weighting and ranking, and I'm good in Java and Perl, and functional in
Python, but my knowledge of C++ is limited to a single undergraduate
course, so I wanted to ask the development community how essential good C++
skills would be if I want to realistically complete this project.

Of course, the reason I want to do this is to improve my programming skills
and contribute to Xapian, but I don't want to be unrealistic about my
prospects. Any advice or feedback you can provide on this would be great.

Thanks
Chris
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/attachments/20120323/d91712fb/attachment.htm>