Hi All I am Manu and recently came across the Xapian project. I will like to contribute to Xapian that gets me introduced to Information Retrieval. I have a basic knowledge of C++. Can you suggest me and help me choose a task that can be good for beginners. Thanks a lot Best Regards Manu Gupta
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 02:26:11PM -0400, Manu Gupta wrote:> I am Manu and recently came across the Xapian project. I will like to > contribute to Xapian that gets me introduced to Information Retrieval. > I have a basic knowledge of C++. Can you suggest me and help me choose > a task that can be good for beginners.The best first step is to check check out the Xapian code from git and get it to build. Once you've done that, I would suggest taking a look at our list of "bite-size" projects: trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas If you don't find anything there of interest, give us clearer idea of what some of thing you'd like to work on and maybe we can suggest something. Cheers, Olly
Hi Olly I will try to work on : trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:LearningtoRank I will be taking a Machine Learning class the next semester and I hope that this project will help me supplement my learning in Machine Learning and also gain a bit of knowledge in IR. If you can give me ideas on how to get around with the code for LTR project, it will be awesome. I can look at it and get back to you. Thanks again!!! Best Regards Manu Gupta On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 02:26:11PM -0400, Manu Gupta wrote: > > I am Manu and recently came across the Xapian project. I will like to > > contribute to Xapian that gets me introduced to Information Retrieval. > > I have a basic knowledge of C++. Can you suggest me and help me choose > > a task that can be good for beginners. > > The best first step is to check check out the Xapian code from git and > get it to build. > > Once you've done that, I would suggest taking a look at our list of > "bite-size" projects: > > trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas > > If you don't find anything there of interest, give us clearer idea of > what some of thing you'd like to work on and maybe we can suggest > something. > > Cheers, > Olly >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/attachments/20141130/b5b0111e/attachment-0002.html>