Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Kudo’s to Dr. Ted Pedersen for finally saying out loud (in the latest issue of Computational Linguistics, thanks to Bob Carpenter for the pointer) what I’ve long thought about academic publications on topics like information retrieval and machine learning:  namely, publications of empirical results in software systems without publishing the software is a disservice to [...]

Apache Solr 1.3.0 has been released.  This version contains many, many improvements and bug fixes.  High on my list are things like a good first step on distributed search support, integrated spell checking, support for Lucene’s “More Like This”, and the much needed Data Import Handler.  Of course, one can’t forget about the numerous performance [...]

The difficulty inherent in managing an open-source community | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News
To remedy this, our development team has made a wide range of improvements and fixes to the Lucene code. At one time the team tried repeatedly to contribute the code [...]

ZooKeeper/Tao - Hadoop Wiki
I like Zookeeper already, and I just started looking at it…  Hopefully the code lives up to the Tao.

Text Processing: Why Servers Choke : Beyond Search
If you’ve been wondering how slow Lucene is, this paper gives you some metrics. The data seem to suggest that Lucene is a very slow horse in a slow race.
Are we reading the same paper?  This hardly says Lucene is a slow horse in the race.  What it [...]