I’ve always loved R&D and I’ve always been fascinated by seeing in action the implementation of my ideas. It was in July 2010 when I started my professional journey in the Open Source search landscape, I was a Junior software engineer at the time, and after few months of post graduate research at Roma3 University…
This blog post is about our latest contribution to the Apache Lucene/Solr project:introducing the ability of assigning different weights to synonyms.This contribution aims to help users that deal with complex synonyms dictionaries where it’s important to associate a numerical weight to each of them, for example to boost the ones that are more important in…
The Apache Lucene/Solr suggesters are important to Sease : we explored the topic in the past[1] and we strongly believe the autocomplete feature to be vital for a lot of search applications. This blog post explores in details the current status of the Lucene BlendedInfixSuggester, some bugs of the most recent version ( with the…
How Apache Solr works internally and the vital data structures that make the Lucene based search engine so fast and efficient.
Let’s describes the approach used in the Lucene Classification module to adapt text classification to document ( multi field ) classification.