Xapian devel - Mar 2014 - GSoC Project: Learning to Rank

Sir,

I am an Undergraduate student of *Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras
Hindu University, Varanasi. "IIT-V"*. I am pursuing my B.Tech. in
Electronics Engineering, currently in the 3rd year.

I have a keen interest in the field of *Machine Learning, Data Mining,
Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval*. Also I have worked
a lot upon fields like *NLP, Speech Synthesis-Recognition and Processing,
Image and Video Processing, Machine Learning and Neural Networks.* What I
found after working in all these is ML is common to all and suits my
interest.

I have done online courses on Machine Learning (by Andrew NG), and
Introduction to NLP (by Dan Jurafsky and Christopher Manning). I have done
various projects on Machine Learning including implementation of *Neural
Networks, SVM, CRF, PCA, etc* and have deep knowledge in these fields.
Currently, I am engaged in a research Project over *NLP (Temporal analysis
of Tweets)*, under guidance of *Dr. Judith Gelerenter, Carnegie Mellon
University*, since October 2013 which is soon going to complete and our
work will be made *open source* after its completion this project involved
use of machine learning methods like *SVM and CRF for NLP.*
Last summer I did an internship in Korea on *Speech Processing* which
involved *neural networks for Speech recognition*. Also, I am learning *Deep
Learning* for my interest. I am efficient coder in *C, C++, Python and
Matlab/Octave.*

I am a self-motivated student and I am very interested in contributing more
and more in field of ML and IR. Now, I want to do some open source
contributions and GSOC is the best platform to do so. I would like to
sincerely contribute to Ranking section of Xapian

I saw the Ideas list of Xapian and these two projects under
*Ranking*category caught my eye. I am particularly interested in
*Project:
Learning to Rank.*

Machine learning is core field of my interest and I am good at it.
This seems to be a great project to get hands on experience in ML and IR,
with contributing to open source. By my past experiences I am trained to
work alone under mentorship, and I will give my 100% sincere efforts in
completing whichever task I am given up.

Please help me on how should I proceed for GSoC.
*-Osho Gupta*
* 3rd Year, B.Tech. **,*
* Department of Electronics Engineering,*
* Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University,*
* Varanasi, India*

* Contact no.: +918604221858*
* Email ID: **osho.gupta.ece11 at iitbhu.ac.in <osho.gupta.ece11 at
iitbhu.ac.in>*
                 *osh1234 at ieee.org <osh1234 at ieee.org>*
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:15:40AM +0530, Osho Gupta B.Tech., ECE, IIT-BHU,
Varanasi (INDIA) wrote:
> Please help me on how should I proceed for GSoC.
Hi Osho,

If you haven't already, I'd strongly recommend reading our guide for
GSoC students:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC%20Guide

Once you've got the code checked out and building and have reviewed the
resources linked to from the project idea, there's an "Exercise to
warm-up" listed in the project idea.  That should get you a better idea
of what the project involves.  If you need help to make progress, feel
free to ask here or on IRC.

Cheers,
    Olly