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As Josh Tuberville of eHarmony explained in the intro to his talk on Day 1 of Lucene Revolution “Jazzed about Solr: People as a Search Problem” (what a great double entendre the title of this session turns out to be! ), Jazzed.com is a new offering from eHarmony, currently in the final stages of development.

Using Solr to find the Right Person for the Right Job

Building specialized industry applications using Solr, and migration from FAST ESP

Implementing Click-through Relevance Ranking in Solr and LucidWorks Enterprise

Transforming the House Hunting Experience: How Solr is Helping Trulia Reshape the Real Estate Industry

In Academia, people who study IR have historically discussed “relevancy” in terms of “Precision vs Recall” (If these terms aren’t familiar to you, then I highly suggest reading the link) but in my experience, those kinds of metrics are just the starting point. While users tend to care that your “Recall” is good (results shouldn’t be missing), “Precision” is is usually less important then “ordering” — Most users (understandably) want the “best” results to come first, and don’t care about the total number of results.

Got a tough problem with your Solr or Lucene application? Facing challenges that you’d like some advice on? Looking for new approaches to overcome a Lucene/Solr issue? Not sure how to get the results you expected? Don’t know where to get started?

t wasn’t the biggest lesson learned from Alberto Mijares’ talk on Day 2 of Lucene Revolution, but the notion that funding issues can lead to a new and successful business model was uplifiting, at the very least.

As Josh Tuberville of eHarmony explained in the intro to his talk on Day 1 of Lucene Revolution “Jazzed about Solr: People as a Search Problem” (what a great double entendre the title of this session turns out to be! ), Jazzed.com is a new offering from eHarmony, currently in the final stages of development.

“Metadata is king!” Thus proclaimed Steve Kearns of Basis Technology, Platinum Sponsor of Lucene Revolution, at the start of this standing-room-only session on Day 1 of the conference. Why? Because it provides a way to enhance otherwise unstructured data with a considerable amount of structure.

Lucene Revolution Keynote Highlights: the once and future history of open source and enterprise search

Back in the 1990′s, Carnegie Mellon University developed the Capability Maturity Model, a scale for determining how prepared a contractor’s processes were for a particular task. If you’ve ever written software for anyone but yourself, you’ll recognize some of these definitions, which call to mind the famous characterization of the evolution of software.

Lucene Revolution 2011 is the largest conference dedicated to open source search. The Lucene Revolution 2011 brings together developers, thought leaders, and market makers who understand that the search technology they've been looking has arrived.This is an event that should not be missed by anyone that is using, or considering, Apache Lucene/Solr or LucidWorks Enterprise for their search applications.

Listening Platforms are a new class of search based applications which help organizations understand their marketplace by monitoring and extracting information from traditional and social media sources. With these applications, global organizations are seeking to understand, interact with, and react to their customers around the world. As these customers increasingly create and consume media in their native languages, leading organizations are going to rely on their listening platforms to understand and deliver insights using information from many languages.

After a week off to enjoy time with my family, I thought I would kick off the last week of 2010 with a look back at the year as it relates to the Apache Lucene ecosystem.  For anyone who follows the amalgamation of projects that I like to call the Lucene Ecosystem (the Apache projects: Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, Tika, PyLucene, Lucy, Lucene.NET, Droids, ManifoldCF — Lucene Connector Framework, OpenNLP and UIMA) you know it has been an amazingly busy and fruitful year.  Instead of going through each project like last year’s review, I’m just going to be a bit less formal and hit on the highlights as I see them.

With the global launch of LucidWorks Enterprise, we’ve also introduced a new online documentation system at http://lucidworks.lucidimagination.com/.  This is the complete product User Guide, documenting all the features and functionality of LucidWorks Enterprise.