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Solr Powered ISFDB – Part #10: Tweaking Relevancy

This is part 10 in a (never ending?) series of articles on Indexing and Searching the ISFDB.org data using Solr....
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A practical approach to Boosting Documents with Solr/Lucene

By definition, document boosting is anything but a “one size fits all” phenomenon, observes Tim Potter of National Renewable Energy...
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They type it how? Difficulties in Japanese spell-check

The first part of Takahiko Ito's talk on Day 2 of Lucene Revolution was interesting, but the second half introduced...
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AT&T: Solr as middleware

I've been doing a lot of talking about how search is about more than finding data; it's about understanding it....
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Search analytics: a window into how users actually search

Sometimes the best way to explain what something is involves first discussing what it is not, and that’s the tack...
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Integrating Advanced Text Analytics into Solr/Lucene

“Metadata is king!” Thus proclaimed Steve Kearns of Basis Technology, Platinum Sponsor of Lucene Revolution, at the start of this...
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More like this: from semantics to new business model

It wasn't the biggest lesson learned from Alberto Mijares' talk on Day 2 of Lucene Revolution, but the notion that...
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Solr and law enforcement: highly relevant results can be a crime

Imagine that you have to integrate and search data from 200 different sources, each of which uses a different structure...
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The once and future history of open source and enterprise search

Lucid Imagination founder Marc Krellenstein kicked off the Lucene Revolution yesterday with a keynote address covering the history of search....
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Simon Willnauer, Column Stride Fields or DocValues, and improving on FieldCache

I'm a web application developer. I am not going to pretend that I understood everything that Simon Willnauer was saying...
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Search for first responders: Interview with Forensic Logic CTO Ron Mayer

Search has certainly played a prominent role in national security, with much discussion across many channels on the information frontier,...
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Using open source isn’t free? Could be search for big data is the win

It's still not unusual, when you hear talk about open source, that the focus is on the fact that it's...
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