[Xapian-devel] Help with xapian

[karthik iyer]

Ok sorry, my bad. Just checked the INEX 2014 website. I believe that is
where we get the data set from.

Cheers
Karthik

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:10 PM, karthik iyer <karthikiyer2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/attachments/20140929/48f3ac1d/attachment.html>