[Xapian-devel] Help with xapian

[karthik iyer]

Hi,

I have started getting a hang of the xapian codebase. I think I would like
to try my hands on the letor module of xapian. Could you please suggest
some free data set for the training and testing of letor features. I am not
able to get the INEX data set from anywhere (the one mentioned by parth
gupta in his GSOC 2011 projecct.

Regards
Karthik

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 08:07:33PM +0530, karthik iyer wrote:
> > I am interested in doing some developement work for xapian. I have
> > built the xapian core library on my system and also tried my hands on
> > a few features of xapian. For the past few days I have been going
> > through the code base of xapian. I am trying to understand how the
> > features are implemented ( i tried looking into the codes of porter
> > stemming and list encoding) but I've not had any significant progress.
> > I am new to open source but have some experience with IR projects.
> > Could you please suggest some proper place to start with?
>
> My suggestion would be to set yourself a goal, for example some small
> new feature to add, and then work towards that.  At least for me, that
> approach usually works better than trying to understand how something
> works just by looking at it.
>
> There's a list of project ideas on the wiki which might be suitable:
>
> http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas
>
> Or if you're interested in a particular area, people might be able to
> suggest something related to that.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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