Here are my ApacheCon 2011 slides for my talk “Bet You Didn’t Know Lucene Can…” :
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| Tuesday, 29 November 2011 |
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For all of those interested in Apache Mahout and scalable machine learning, Lucid Imagination is hosting a Mahout Users Meeting at it’s new office in Redwood City on Nov. 29th. Doors open at 6:30 pm. The night will feature two speakers, Ted Dunning of MapR Technologies and Grant Ingersoll of Lucid Imagination, along with a social gathering with food and drinks.
For more details and to RSVP, …
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With another Lucene Eurocon successfully behind us (thanks Barcelona, you’ve been awesome!), it’s time to say hello to Vancouver for ApacheCon. I’ll leave it to others to fill in the blanks on the Barcelona conference other than to say that I am continually amazed by the vibrancy of the Lucene/Solr community and especially grateful to all the committers and contributors who take the time to show up and give talks about how they leverage …
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You know your (technical) baby is (almost) grown up when the book on the project finally comes out. Such is the case for Apache Mahout, thanks to Manning Publications shipping Mahout in Action this week.
So, before I start into my review, let me first say congratulations to Sean, Robin, Ted, Ellen and Manning for producing such an excellent product. The simplest praise I can give it is to put it on the same …
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From a quiet start as a pet project to a giant in the industry, Apache Lucene is definitely the little (search) engine that could. On September 18th, 2001 (at 16:29:48 UTC) Jason Van Zyl made the first official import of Doug Cutting’s Lucene project (which started in 1997 and was hosted on SourceForge) into Apache’s Jakarta project (check out the Wayback machine).
And while I wasn’t around in the beginning, I thought I would …
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One of the singular qualities of search technology is its breadth: if it’s been written down (albeit digitally), you can search it, and if you can search it, you can build a search app for it. That’s part of what makes Solr/Lucene so alluring for application development — you can build it to search just about anything, for anyone, in any way. Inspiring breadth, however, can be pretty daunting to master.
How, then, can you …
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It’s official, Apache Lucene 3.1.0 and Apache Solr 3.1.0 are officially released. Keep an eye here for more on the new features and functionality.
Here’s the release announcements as just sent to the mailing lists:
March 2011, Apache Lucene 3.1 available
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 3.1.
This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and
improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release
is available for immediate
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While we make some of our money off of professional services and support of Apache Lucene and Solr, I thought I would pass along a few freebies when it comes to improving your Lucene or Solr application. These are things that we usually end up telling most clients at some stage of the game. Many of them fall under the “broken windows” theory of software development, so don’t expect anything too earth shattering.…
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The Apache Lucene community has just released versions 2.9.4 and 3.0.3. Here is the release announcement:
Both releases fix bugs in the previous versions:
- 2.9.4 is a bugfix release for the Lucene Java 2.x series, based on Java 1.4.
- 3.0.3 has the same bug fix level but is for the Lucene Java 3.x series, based on Java 5.
New users of Lucene are advised to use version 3.0.3 for new developments, because it has a
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For those of you who are looking to enhance your search (and other applications) capabilities with Natural Language Processing capabilities like named entity extraction, parsing, sentence detection and others techniques, do take note that the long standing Sourceforge project, OpenNLP, has entered incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. I think this is a great move for the project as it will no doubt bring greater contributions and attention from a wider audience leading to …
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