Re: GSoC: Weighting Schemes

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 04:37:34PM +0530, Gaurav Arora wrote:

> Most of the files in config are from a test collection taken from FIRE, we
> would need to ask permission to gain access to those files by FIRE team(
> http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/static/data). It needs to be signed to gain
> access by organization to permit us to use data.
> 
> Earlier being part of fire team, i was able to use this data. Not sure i
> have the data now, Should we fill these form and ask permission to use this
> data from FIRE team?

It'd be good to have access to some well-curated data sets, but I'm
not sure right now that we can really fill out the form, because we're
not incorporated or part of a university or similar. I imagine we'd be
able to do it if/when we're under the umbrella of SFC. However the
bureaucracy for FIRE seems a little onerous (to me -- maybe all
academic data sets have similar levels of paperwork). If we can find
some data sets under simpler conditions, that would be helpful.

J

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