There’s not really a setting in a search engine to make a disproving search versus a finding search. If there was, then many patent trolls would be uttering a long bellow of anguish and going back under the bridges where they were hiding.
0 replies - 1662 views - 02/09/12 by Jason Hull in Articles
Most of the time in Solr's Dismax query parser we use parameters like qf, pf or mm forgetting about a very useful parameter which allows us to control how the lower scoring fields are treated – the tie parameter. In this article you'll learn how this parameter can be put to good use.
0 replies - 1587 views - 02/08/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
One of the features of the latest Solr version (3.5) is the ability to identify the language of the document during its indexation. In today's entry we will see how Apache Solr works together with Apache Tika to identify the language of the documents.
0 replies - 2069 views - 02/06/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
Learn about the controversy that emerged in the early days of the Java 7 GA release because of the effect it had on Apache Lucene - from the perspective of Uwe...
1 replies - 5043 views - 02/03/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos
One of the configuration variables we can find in the solrconfig.xml file is maxBooleanClauses, which specifies the maximum number of boolean clauses that can be combined in a single query. The question is, do I have to worry about it when using filters in Solr? Find out.
0 replies - 1321 views - 02/02/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
Today, Lucid Imagination releases LucidWorks Cloud, a SaaS version of their LucidWorks Enterprise platform, for general availability.
0 replies - 1855 views - 02/01/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles
Mark your calendars today! The largest worldwide conference dedicated to Lucene and Solr will take place in Boston May 7-10.
0 replies - 1466 views - 02/01/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Announcements
Recently, we had a project where we helped a client index a corpus of
Chinese language documents in Solr. We have asked Dan Funk, a committer
to Project Blacklight
to provide a guest blog post for us on the details of how to approach
indexing Chinese,...
0 replies - 2475 views - 01/30/12 by Jason Hull in Articles
This talk will show how the relevance of search results can be
improved by using morphological analysis and named entity recognition.
After briefly...
0 replies - 2467 views - 01/27/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos
The free Solr Reference Guide published by Lucid Imagination has been updated to 3.5 - the current release version of Solr
and Lucene. The changes weren't major, but here are the key changes:
1 replies - 2617 views - 01/23/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
See and hear how IBM applies Lucence into their commercial software
offerings. Hear about experience in development and advantages of this...
0 replies - 1910 views - 01/21/12 by Christopher Smith in Videos
Virgin Money Giving is a UK-based not-for-profit business that was
launched as a result of Virgin Money’s sponsorship of the London
Marathon and raised...
0 replies - 1596 views - 01/17/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos
Text analytics is a large and interesting subject, covering a wide
range of topics. In the world of enterprise search however, the usual
application of...
0 replies - 1799 views - 01/14/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos
The next functionality I decided to look at, from the upcoming Solr
4.0, is the so called “Realtime Get”. It allows you to see the data even
though it was not yet added to the index, thus before the commit operation being sent to Solr. Let’s see how...
0 replies - 2068 views - 01/11/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
In most cases a GET request is used to send select queries to Solr. This
is how it’s done in most examples, it’s easy to test in the browser and
easy to implement. However, Solr also supports POST requests for select
queries. This can for instance be...
0 replies - 2157 views - 01/10/12 by Bas De Nooijer in Articles
