Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Lucene Boot Camp (ApacheCon site) Lucene Boot Camp (http://www.lucenebootcamp.com) is scheduled this year for ApacheCon US on November 3 and 4th in New Orleans.  This year, I am doing a two day event, as I felt the one day event was just not enough time to get in all the goodness that is Lucene (not [...]

It’s been an interesting few months over in Mahout land. First off, I am psyched about the response the project has been getting. Seems like there is a pent up demand for large scale machine learning these days.  I figured we would do all right in the early months, but I didn’t think we would [...]

FeatherCast » Blog Archive » Episode 43: Lucene I did a FeatherCast today with Rich Bowen.  Dang, he is quick at editing…

ApacheCon EU 2008 Schedule is out for ApacheCon Europe.  I will be doing my Lucene Boot Camp training and a Lucene Performance talk.  Erik Hatcher will also be doing a Solr Boot Camp and a Lucene/Solr talk.  There will also be some Hadoop talks.

I have setup a new site to support my Lucene Boot Camp training.  Check it out at http://lucenebootcamp.com.  From there, you can download training setup information, read the class outline, etc.

Just a friendly reminder, I am giving my Lucene Boot Camp training at ApacheCon Atlanta this year (November.)  Still plenty of time to sign up.  Details on the class are here.  Also, feel free to email me with any questions or things you would like to see.  My apache.org email is gsingers.  I will be [...]

Looks like they have put up the ApacheCon Atlanta schedule. As usual, there looks to be several very good talks covering Lucene and Solr, including talks by Chris Hostetter, Ken Krugler, Michael Busch and yours truly. My talk is at 3pm on November 16, details are here. I will also be leading my “Lucene Boot [...]

The latest version of my slides for “Advanced Lucene” are located at http://www.cnlp.org/presentations/present.asp?show=conference Talk covered term vectors, using various query types and Lucene performance tips and tricks.

My (slightly old) slides for ApacheCon Europe are now available in the conference proceedings available at http://eu.apachecon.com/downloads/materials.zip I will post the latest version soon, but there is very little difference between this version and the latest. Topics covered include Lucene performance, term vectors and query tips and tricks. Feedback is always welcome

As I posted earlier, I will be giving a talk and a tutorial at ApacheCon Europe this year on the Apache Lucene Java project. My talk is titled “Advance Lucene”. Here is the abstract: Lucene Java is a high performance, scalable, cross-platform search engine that contains many advanced features that often are under utilized by [...]