Xapian discuss - Nov 2014 - Contributing to the project-REG.

Hi,

I am subham soni.  I am pursuing my final year in Computer science and
engineering.

I am very much interested in information retrieval,  but I am a newbie in
it.

I know the three stages of IR that are analyzing the query,  Indexing and
ranking.

I have a fair idea about page rank and crawlers and inverted index
mechanism.

But when it comes to implementation I am stuck or I don't find where to
implement meaning the corpa.

So I thought I can give a hand in a search engine development project.
There I found xapian.

Basically my thought is any search engine must provide results related to
the user and his context and limit the results and not flood with many.

For example if I want to know how to program a linked list in c then the
best resources must be provided like from coursera and tutorialspoint etc.
And a few more.  But not a lacs of results for the same because it is going
to consume the processing time and secondly the user won't have time to
visit all links.

I have many suggestions like this.

Can I join this project and start contributing?

I am good at core java and basic python.

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 01:32:00PM +0530, Subham Soni
wrote:
> Basically my thought is any search engine must provide results related to
> the user and his context and limit the results and not flood with many.
> 
> For example if I want to know how to program a linked list in c then the
> best resources must be provided like from coursera and tutorialspoint etc.
> And a few more.  But not a lacs of results for the same because it is going
> to consume the processing time and secondly the user won't have time to
> visit all links.
> 
> I have many suggestions like this.
Suggestions in isolation like these aren't so useful - you really need a
plan for how you're going to achieve them.  You're certainly not the
first person to think that it would be good to return a smaller number
of results which are those most relevant to the person searching - the
hard part is following through - come up with a feasible way to achieve
that goal, and then implement it.
> Can I join this project and start contributing?
> I am good at core java and basic python.
Sure.  The first thing to do is check out the Xapian code from git and
get it to build.

Then find yourself a small task to get familiar with the code - fix a
bug, or take a look at the list of "bite-size" projects on the wiki:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas

Cheers,
    Olly