similar to: [GSOC 2014] Indexing INEX dataset

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 03:20:31PM +0100, Parth Gupta wrote: > > > > On current trunk, we index the title with prefix "S" by default in > > omindex, though with a wdf inc of 5 rather than 1: > > > > indexer.index_text(title, 5, "S"); > > > > So I don't think you need that change to omindex now. > > Yes, but please

Hi, I?m trying to use Omega to index INEX dataset for Letor. But omindex told me these xml files are unknown. Olly told me I could tell omindex to handle them as HTML. (Thanks Olly :) ) Is it appropriate? Parth, could you give me some suggestions? Thank you! Jiarong Wei

Hi Olly, Wouldn't setting the weight of terms in title back to normal (e.g. 5 to 1) by below line, automatically adjust the wdfs and field lengths? indexer.index_text(title, 5, "S"); -> indexer.index_text(title, 1, "S"); if it does not then we should include that part in the patch too. I like to create a patch for xapian-letor for resolving common code of xapian.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:02:15PM +0100, Parth Gupta wrote: > During the indexing with omindex, only you need to make sure is indexing > with prefix 'S' for title as explained here in Letor documentation: > xapian-letor/docs/letor.rst > > Previously when I edited omindex.cc it was modified as can be seen >

Thanks for your reply! For the third question: In https://inex.mmci.uni-saarland.de/data/documentcollection.jsp, I can find inex2010-article.qrels in 2010 assessment, but can?t find query files. Could you send me the link? I have registered on INEX website. And I also need to download ``INEX 2009 collection without annotation tags: (unofficial)`` on

Hi, I've read the code of letor module. And I have some questions about it: 1. In https://github.com/rishabhmehrotra/xapian/blob/master/xapian-letor/letor_internal.cc#L299, there is a write_to_file method, which save RankList into ?train.txt?. But the format for ?train.txt? is different from the one mentioned in http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC2011/LTR/Notes#QueryLevelNorm. And in

Hello, I'm Ayush from New Delhi, India. I am interested in Letor Stabilisation project for GSoC. I have a good background in machine learning. Sorry for getting in so late, university exams were holding me back. I'll try to cover as much as I can in the coming week. I am following the plan of attack suggested on the project page. Following are the things that I have completed: 1.

Hi all, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to work with Xapian :) I am Jiarong Wei, a third year undergraduate student in Zhejiang University, China. In GSoC 2014, I will work on Letor module with Hanxiao Sun. Here are some questions I encountered these days, 1. In letor.cc, we have two parts of functions: the training part and the ranking part. I?ll use SVMRanker as an example. The

For unsupervised approaches like BM25 this approach works well but letor does not need special weighting for title in this form as it itself assigns weights to title features separately. But I see your concern it would be a problem when BM25 is used on the index with this setup. Hence its preferable to take a note of this uplift in title weight for xapian-letor and normalize it everywhere

Hello, I wanted to decide the dataset that should be used for Letor stabilisation project. I think 2009 INEX Wikipedia Collection <http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/databases-and-information-systems/software/inex/> should work fine. It's a collection of 2,666,190 XML articles, 115 topics <http://inex.mmci.uni-saarland.de/protected/adhoc/2009-topics.zip>, 50,275 qrel

Hi, Before starting my proposal, I wanted to know what is the expected output of Letor module. Is it for transfer learning (i.e you learn from one dataset and leverage it to predict the rankings of other dataset) or is it for supervised learning? For instance - Xapian currently powers the Gmane search which is by default based on BM25 weighting scheme and now suppose we want to use LETOR to rank

Hi, I am unable to build the letor module. I am generating the configure file using autoconf. The configure file generated is throwing the error ./configure: line 2057: syntax error near unexpected token `1.10.1' ./configure: line 2057: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.10.1 -Wportability tar-ustar)` I am not too sure what to do with this. Need help with this. Thank You Regards Karthik On Mon, Sep 29,

Hi, I have several questions regarding the letor module,I looked at the framework of learning to rank in xapian http://rishabhmehrotra.com/gsoc/17.png, I am a little confused. Why using deep learning to find unsupervised features in test data? Since in my understanding, learning to rank model usually learn features from the training data then apply the model to the test data? Why test set and

Just to add on top of what Olly has already mentioned. > > Now, I'm reading the resources provided on ideas' page. Do you have > > any other suggestions of knowing more about the letor? > > And I'd like to test the function of letor. But I can't find code > > example. Can u give me some suggestions? > > Hopefully Parth can help here. > In order

Hi, I am Jiarong Wei (irc: VcamX). I?m a 3rd year computer science student at Zhejiang University, China. I?m very willing to contribute to Xapian as part of GSoC 2014. Now I?m at Simon Fraser University, Canada, as an exchange student. I?ll go back to China on the end of April. I think it doesn?t matter I?ll change the time zone :) From the list of project?s ideas, Learning to Rank interests me

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

Hi Parth, I have a few questions- 1. Could you please provide me with the link for query-file, qrel-file for the dataset available at http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/d5/software/inex/ . 2. I wanted to know how automated testing would be implemented. Will there be test cases like a test query must match this particular N results and this particular ranking. Or will it be in terms of

Hi Parth, I implemented DFR algorithms in Xapian as a part of GSOC last year under the mentorship of Olly. This year, I want to work on analyzing and optimizing the performance of the DFR algorithms and comparing them with BM25.I also want to work on profiling the query expansion schemes and test the relevance(precision and recall) / speed(time taken) of the

As Olly has already pointed out the 2012 branch is not merged. I think there are some compilation errors in the branch. The code in branch is better refactored. The Ranker and FeatureManager classes are well defined and implemented. Parth. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 08:34:10PM +0800, jiangwen jiang wrote: >

Hi Rishabh, I think its better not to expose RankiList to Letor.h and make it better user friendly. So my suggestion is to convert RankList to the following statement in this method. std::map<Xapian::docid, double> letor_score(const Xapian::MSet & mset); So just convert the RankList in std::map<Xapian::docid, double> format in the methods where you need to return. Parth. On