On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 the proposal. We already have a committer digging into this area - he > would make a perfect GSoC mentor! And would likely love the help.
same here +1 - if there is mentoring needed I will be there too. Robert I recommend you already when David contacted me in the first place :) it's all yours :) simon > > His response likely to follow... > > - Mark > > On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:32 AM, David Nemeskey wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have already sent this mail to Simon Willnauer, and he suggested me to post >> it here for discussion. >> >> I am David Nemeskey, a PhD student at the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, >> Hungary. I am doing an IR-related research, and we have considered using >> Lucene as our search engine. We were quite satisfied with the speed and ease >> of >> use. However, we would like to experiment with different ranking algorithms, >> and this is where problems arise. Lucene only supports the VSM, and >> unfortunately the ranking architecture seems to be tailored specifically to >> its >> needs. >> >> I would be very much interested in revamping the ranking component as a GSoC >> project. The following modifications should be doable in the allocated time >> frame: >> - a new ranking class hierarchy, which is generic enough to allow easy >> implementation of new weighting schemes (at least bag-of-words ones), >> - addition of state-of-the-art ranking methods, such as Okapi BM25, proximity >> and DFR models, >> - configuration for ranking selection, with the old method as default. >> >> I believe all users of Lucene would profit from such a project. It would >> provide the scientific community with an even more useful research aid, while >> regular users could benefit from superior ranking results. >> >> Please let me know your opinion about this proposal. >> >> Thank you very much, >> David Nemeskey >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> > > - Mark Miller > lucidimagination.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
