Re: Guidance for Xapian GSoC Project

Hi Neil,

Please keep all the GSoC related communications on the xapian-devel
mailing list (https://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-devel) so
that
more people can add their inputs in response to your queries.

> I would like to know how to start working towards a good proposal
> for implementing the advanced training method.

You can find it in detail in the DBN paper which is linked in the resources
section of the project idea. But before going into such details, I would
first
go through some literature on click models to develop a good understanding
of the things involved in click-stream mining and see how clickmodels are
useful there.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Vivek


On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 7:25 AM, Neil Paul <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>          I was looking through the project descriptions of possible Xapian
> SoC projects and really liked the one titled Learning to Rank Clickstream
> Data Mining
> ​. I have an avid interest in ML and IR​, having done an ML related GSoC
> project last year as well under Green Navigation, and would like to go
> ahead with working on this project. Your name was mentioned in the list of
> possible mentors and hence I have contected you for further details
>          I would like to know how to start working towards a good proposal
> for implementing the advanced training method.
> Thank You.
> Indraneil Paul
>