Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-12 Thread Gautham Shankar
Robert Stojnic rainmansr at gmail.com writes: Hello, Yep, generating the wodnet itself is a challenging and interesting project. I was simply commenting on the Lucene part, i.e. on possible application. Currently the lucene backend works by employing some very general rules (e.g.

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-08 Thread Robert Stojnic
Hello, Yep, generating the wodnet itself is a challenging and interesting project. I was simply commenting on the Lucene part, i.e. on possible application. Currently the lucene backend works by employing some very general rules (e.g. titles get highest score, then first sentence in

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012: Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-06 Thread Gautham Shankar
Hi, I have addressed the issues in my talk page and added a 'Future Project Maintenance' section to address maintenance needs. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gautham_shankar/Gsoc Kindly let me know if there are any other changes i have to make. Thank you for your support, Regards,

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-06 Thread Robert Stojnic
Hi Gautham, I think mining wiktionary is an interesting project. However, about the more practical Lucene part: at some point I tried using wordnet to expand queries however I found that it introduces too many false positives. The most challenging part I think it *context-based* expansion.

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-06 Thread Gautham Shankar
Robert Stojnic rainmansr at gmail.com writes: Hi Gautham, I think mining wiktionary is an interesting project. However, about the more practical Lucene part: at some point I tried using wordnet to expand queries however I found that it introduces too many false positives. The most

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-06 Thread Oren Bochman
Hi Robert Stojnic and Gautham Shankar I wanted to let Gautham that he has written a great proposal and thank you for the feedback as well. I wanted to point out that in my point of view the main goal of this multilingual wordnet isn't queary expansion, but rather means for ever greater cross

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-05 Thread Gautham Shankar
Hello, Based on the feedback i received i have updated my proposal page. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gautham_shankar/Gsoc There is about 20 Hrs for the deadline and any final feedback would be useful. I have also submitted the proposal at the GSOC page. Regards, Gautham Shankar

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-05 Thread Gregory Varnum
Also a reminder for folks that this and some other proposals need mentors. Gautham - thank you for the updated proposal page. I would also solicit feedback in our Irc channel if you can and connect with interested mentors: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSOC#Mentor_signup

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion from Wikipedia Text

2012-04-04 Thread Gautham Shankar
Hello, I'm Gautham Shankar from India pursuing my 4th year bachelors in computer science and engineering.I find the project proposal Lucene Automatic Query Expansion from Wikipedia Text in GSOC 2012 very interesting and would love to work on it. i have created a proposal for the idea

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion from Wikipedia Text

2012-04-04 Thread Gregory Varnum
Greetings, Thank you for putting this proposal together. I would expand a bit on how you plan to implement this. The why and what seem reasonably clear to me in your proposal, but I'd be curious what others think. You'll also want to look at the GSOC page on MW.org and in the IRC to aide your