[Xapian-devel] About the projects of "Ranking" for GSoC 2012

[Mohiuddin Abdul Qader]

Hello,
I am Mohiuddin Abdul Qader, final year student from dept of CSE in
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology(BUET).
My major was artificial intelligence & i finished my course on Machine
Learning and Pattern Recognition this year. I am very keen to contribute in
open source community. I have just completed my thesis on  'Location Based
Structured Web Search'. For the purpose of research, I developed a search
engine in BUET domain using vector space model
implementing tf-idf weighting scheme. I have showed that our search engine
gives better result for many queries than google.
I have to plans to work on other weighting schemes to see if those works
better.

I have been following Xapian for couple of days. I am very keen on the
projects of 'Ranking' criteria. "Project: Weighting Schemes"
is a very interesting project for me, as i have already developed a search
engine using tf-idf scheme and i would really like to implement tfidf or
DivergenceFromRandomness on xapian. Will it sufficient to be a GSoC project?

Another project was very interesting 'Learning to Rank'. I went through
some study about this project & find out some papers from Microsoft
Research regarding implementation of learning to Rank using Gradient
Descent Algorithm (Neural Network). I recently worked on a project on
Bengali character recognition using a Neural Network. Here the Neural
Network was build from scratch by me in Java. So it will be exciting to
work on implementing a neural network & apply learning to rank algorithm to
see the results.
Can you give any suggestion about what further study I have to do? Also as
both projects are very interesting which project should i give priority to
be accepted as a GSoC project?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Mohiuddin Abdul Qader
CSE, BUET '06
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