Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Very cool, Manning already has up the first 6 chapters of Mahout in Action.

Congratulations to Apache Tika (nevermind the incubator address, it’s still in the process of migrating) for graduating from Incubation!   And welcome to the Lucene project!  Tika is a content extraction framework that wraps many other content extraction libraries such as PDFBox, POI, and others into a single, easy to use framework that makes it easy [...]

Charlotte JUG » October Slides Available – Search & Analysis Had a lot of fun at my recent talk at the Charlotte JUG.  They’ve got a good core of people and there was a lot of good discussion about the topic. Even managed to give away some free eBooks of “Taming Text“.  Wish I would [...]

I’ve had a chance recently to work on some things in Solr that I think that can, in the right circumstances, really enhance Solr. First off, is SOLR-651, which implements what I am calling a Term Vector Component. The basic gist of it is that Solr can now serve up term vectors from Lucene.  For [...]

Charlotte JUG » OCT 15TH – 6PM – Search and Text Analysis I will be speaking at the Charlotte Java Users Group on Oct. 15th, covering things like Lucene, Solr, OpenNLP and Mahout, amongst other things.  Basically, a high level talk on my book.

Manning: Taming Text Scary…  I guess it is real!