On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:07:31AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:09:27PM +0530, swair shah wrote:
> > I'm an senior year CS student working in information retrieval. I was
> > looking for a project to do (preferably related to information retrieval).
> > Can someone guide me and sort of mentor me part time?
>

> There's a list of project ideas on the wiki, which is probably a good
> starting point:
>
> http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas
>
> If nothing there appeals then give us an idea what sort of thing you'd
> like to work on, and we'll try to suggest something.

Hi Swair,

I've not heard anything further, so just wanted to check if you needed
any help.

A couple of the more IR-related ideas are:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#WeightingSchemes

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#DynamicSnippets

Cheers,
   Olly