[Xapian-devel] Learning to rank

[Parth Gupta]

Pankaj,

FANN looks fine. But in the proposal I would like to see something specific
what you plan to do with that. Like implementing the algorithm RankNet,
ListNet or something else?

Parth.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 05:26:45PM +0530, pankaj singhal wrote:
> > I have come across these C++ neural-frameworks:
> > FANN <http://leenissen.dk/fann/wp/>
> > Libann <http://www.nongnu.org/libann/doc/libann_4.html#SEC17>
>
> Did you check the licences?  Libann's site clearly says it's GPL and as
> I said in the message you replied to, we'd rather not add more GPL
> dependencies.
>
> > I want you to look at the libraries as while incorporating them the need
> of
> > implementing the ML algo. from the scratch reduces.
> > http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-devel
>
> FANN says it is LGPL, which is probably OK.  I've no idea if it fulfils
> the needs of the project.  Parth may be able to comment more usefully,
> but ultimately you'll need to show us in your proposal that the
> libraries you're intending to use are suitable, so you'll need to look
> into this more deeply yourself.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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