[Xapian-devel] Xapian and GSoC 2014

[Tejas Nikumbh]

Hey Parth,

    Just for a quick introduction to the Xapian community, I am Tejas
Nikumbh, Senior EE UG at IIT Bombay. My background is in C++, Machine
Learning and programming in general.I'd like to be a part of Xapian's dev
community and GSoC this year.

    Thanks for the input. I also had a chat with Olly the other day, and as
I had shown interest in the Weighting Schemes project as well, she
suggested I go over some theorotical aspects of Information Retrieval and
gave me generally good advice. I'm onto it.

    I'll also be looking into the code base this weekend. Let me know if
there are any other updates.

Thanks,


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Parth Gupta <pargup8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tejas,
>
> Thank you for your interest in Letor project in Xapian. We would
> definitely like to consider Letor for this year's GSoC project.
>
> What I would suggest you is, start playing with the code and get
> acquainted with it. The latest code can be obtained from
> http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC2012/LTR
>
> Regards,
> Parth.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Tejas Nikumbh <tejasnikumbh at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Parth,
>>
>>     I saw your name  on the mentors list. I'm currently pursuing my EE
>> major (with a lot of CS electives) at IIT Bombay. I'm interested n
>> contributing to Xapian as a whole. I was particularly interested in the
>> Ranking schemes ideas like Weighing sums and Learning to Rank. I wanted to
>> know how important these ideas are to the organization as a whole this year
>> and whether or not they are of high priority from the point of view of
>> GSoC. I've previously been associated with a contract development with
>> Columbia/Stanford/Caltech and also have done an internship in data
>> scrapping with TRDDC India. However, I've not done information retrieval in
>> c++.  You can check out my linked in profile here : -
>> http://in.linkedin.com/pub/tejas-nikumbh/61/260/198
>>
>>   I've done some good algorithms based projects in c++. I haven't updated
>> my github yet but will send you a link soon.
>>
>>    As far as opensource development is concerned, I have little
>> experience. Although so, I'm really looking forward to contributing to it
>> this year. I've started submitting patches to some bugs online, and would
>> be looking into Xapians codebase soon.
>>
>>    Please let me know about what further steps I should take as of now to
>> ensure that I maximize my chances of getting into GSoC. I'm already gone
>> through Xapians tips page.
>>
>> Thanks and let me know.
>>
>> --
>> Tejas Nikumbh,
>> Fourth Year Undergraduate,
>> Electrical Engineering Department,
>> IIT Bombay.
>>
>
>


-- 
Tejas Nikumbh,
Third Year Undergraduate,
Electrical Engineering Department,
IIT Bombay.
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