Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

It’s that time of year again: time to vote for SXSW talks.  Last year I did a talk with RC Johnson of BazaarVoice on Solr as NoSQL, this year I thought I would try to fly solo and submitted a talk on Apache Mahout. So, if you are so inclined to do the whole crowdsourcing [...]

It’s back to school time and for those with academic interests in machine learning, it’s great to see Apache Mahout is catching on in academic circles, in addition to commercial circles.  The interest is no doubt due to its open code, active community and focus on real world machine learning techniques.  The first class based [...]

Yonik Seeley and Breck Baldwin will each be presenting next week in NYC on Solr and Lucene.  Details at: NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup 11 May 2010 – NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup New York, NY – Meetup.com.

Readers might find my first post on integrating Lucene/Solr and Mahout interesting: Lucid Imagination » Integrating Apache Mahout with Apache Lucene and Solr – Part I (of 3).

My first article on Apache Mahout was just published on IBM devWorks.  It’s targeted at people just getting started with machine learning and Mahout.   You can read the article at Introducing Apache Mahout.  Feedback welcome.

Sean Owen, Apache Mahout committer has put up a brief post stating that Mippin is using Apache Mahout for it’s recommendation system. Read it: Mippin Blog: May We Recommend….

Natural Language Processing Virtual Reading Group | Google Groups A few people in the NLP LinkedIn group have decided to start up a virtual reading group.  All are welcome.

Just wanted to follow up on last night’s Lucene/Solr Meetup in San Francisco. First off, special thanks to all the speakers (Jason Rutherglen, Michael Busch, Erik Hatcher and all the lightning talks.)  We had a lot of excellent talks ranging from low level Lucene details on payloads and real time search to high level discussions [...]

Copying TREC is the Wrong Track for the Enterprise | The Noisy Channel. Daniel Tunkelang has written up an interesting post on the new Open Relevance Project that me and a few other Lucene people are starting up and I thought I would respond here: Little late to the conversation, but I think maybe we [...]

Interview with Mike Klaas | Lucid Imagination. Looks like my interview with Solr committer Mike Klaas is up.  Check it out, some interesting discussion about Worio‘s use of Solr and also some discussion on machine learning in the context of search.