Bi-gram Language Modeling

Name	Gaurav Arora
IRC nick	samuelharden
Timezone	UTC+5:30
Work hours	5:00 -14:00 UTC
Official mentor	James Aylett
Code repository	​https://github.com/samuelharden/xapian-gaurav-gsoc
Current Worked on Branch	​https://github.com/samuelharden/xapian-gaurav-gsoc/tree/bigram
Evaluation Code repository	​https://github.com/samuelharden/xapian-evaluation
Documentation repository	​https://github.com/samuelharden/xapian-docsprint
Melange	​http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/samuelharden/21001
GSOC Blog	​http://gsocxapian.blogspot.com

Bi-gram Language modeling approach to information retrieval have proved to outperform the three tradition IR approaches . Bi-gram Language model apart from better retrieval performance renders a rich resource Bi-gram from collection which can be used for phrase searching, Diversifying search results, and query reformulation suggestion to user. Bi-gram Language model would make Xapian a more powerful library for research in information retrieval.

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