On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:06:01PM +0530, Rahul Barnwal wrote: > Hi, > I will like to contribute on the project "String Processing Utilities". I > had built and acquainted myself with mlpack library to some extent earlier. > > I am somewhat familiar with various string encoding methods in python. And > i am willing to learn things in the process. Could you tell how to get > started on this project and how to proceed on the same.
Hi Rahul, Thanks for getting in touch. I think that the string processing utilities project will be an interesting one. I would say that the right way to get started on this project is to understand the problem. One way to do that (and there are many others) might be to find a data science problem that involves strings... perhaps, predicting the next character in a sentence with an RNN, or, perhaps, performing TF-IDF (or similar) on the Yelp reviews dataset and trying to predict the outcome with logistic regression. There are many tasks of this sort but the key would be to choose one, then use mlpack to solve the problem. When you do that, you can then identify the difficulties inherent in using string-based datasets with mlpack, and this can help inform your proposal on how these types of issues could be improved or resolved. Of course, feel free to discuss ideas here on the mailing list. Let me know if I can clarify anything that I've written. Thanks, Ryan -- Ryan Curtin | "Avoid the planet Earth at all costs." r...@ratml.org | - The President _______________________________________________ mlpack mailing list mlpack@lists.mlpack.org http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack
