[Xapian-devel] Learning to rank

[Dan Colish]

On 3/26/12 5:58 AM, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 06:10:53PM +0530, pankaj singhal wrote:
>> Would the inclusion of
>> WEKA<http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/%7Eml/weka/index.html>be encouraged,
>> referring to the update "If there is a public library
>> available for the ML part of the algorithm then it is advisable to use it".
> Weka is in Java, so no.  Although calling between Java and C++ is
> possible, we really don't want a JVM to be a dependency of Xapian.
>
> It's also GPL, and we're trying to get to a position where we can
> relicense Xapian, so adding more GPL dependencies isn't desirable
> either.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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However, it might be interesting to see a project that integrates the
two into a useful application. I'd like to see projects that work on
incorporating Xapian rather than adding more features to the core.

--Dan