NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup

NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup, 7-9PM Eastern, Tuesday May 11

Cool Linguistic Tricks to Apply to Search Results: A source code level demonstration using LingPipe Breck Baldwin, Founder, LingPipe: The talk will cover post-processing options for Twitter searches; also, clustering and classification with some potential for conceptual indexing at the level of persons/orgs/locations. There will be a demo available for download that runs the examples and contains the source.

Solr 1.5 and Beyond: Yonik Seeley, author of Solr, co-founder, Lucid Imagination Topics will include new faceting functionality, new function queries, increased scalability, field collapsing, and spatial search. There will also be a discussion about the recently announced Lucene/Solr merge, the rationale, its implications, and plans for its completion. The talk will span features already included in trunk, features slated for the next release, as well as incomplete features under consideration for future releases.

Details on location and RSVP here.