[Xapian-devel] Regarding the Learning to Rank project

[Olly Betts]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:56:20PM +0530, Abraham Sebastian wrote:
> My name is Abraham and I am a 2nd year college student from
> Bangalore(India). I was going through your list of project ideas, and the
> Learning to Rank project really interested me . Unfortunately I don't
> really have any real experience with "Information Retrieval" and only know
> the basics of "Machine Learning". I was hoping that somebody could maybe
> point me in the right direction so as to be able to gather the knowledge
> required for this project. Also where would I need to begin to begin
> understanding the code?

There are some useful links in the "Resources" section of the project
idea:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:LearningtoRank

Cheers,
    Olly