Re: [boost] GSoC 2014 - Full Text Search

Subject: Re: [boost] GSoC 2014 - Full Text Search
From: Nikhar Agrawal (nikharagrawal2006_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-09 14:04:56

No takers on this?

Thanks.

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Nikhar Agrawal
<nikharagrawal2006_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I'm Nikhar Agrawal, currently pursuing my B.Tech. in Computer Science and
> Engineering from IIIT-H. I was a GSoC student last time for Boost C++ under
> the mentorship of Christopher Kormanyos and advisory mentorship of John
> Maddock and Paul Bristow for the Boost.Math Bernoulli numbers project.
>
> It was a wonderful experience to have successfully managed to contribute
> to Boost. And it was a great learning process. I would love to participate
> this year as well.
> I was going through the ideas page and saw 'Full Text Search' listed in
> tiny letters near the bottom of the page.
> As part of our coursework on Information Retrieval and Extraction in
> college, we have built a project on searching for queries on a 42 gb
> wikipedia xml dump. So, I got a little excited at seeing 'Full Text Search'
> being listed.
>
> I skimmed through the Boost mailing list archives but couldn't find any
> information on this. Could someone kindly elaborate what exactly is
> expected from this? And if there's any interest from anyone in mentoring
> this project?
>
> Thanks.
>