OSC To Have Three speakers at Lucene Revolution!
If youd like to catch up with us and youre in Europe, theres few better places to hear what were all about than at one of our talks at…
OSC has 9 speaking engagements the Fall (and counting)
Just in case youre interested, Id like to add 6ish more speaking engagements to the list of speakers were taking to Dublin this November. Database History from Codd to…
Detecting Reddit Voting Rings Using This Weird Little Data Trick
A wolf in sheeps clothing Wow, so apparently the Reddit community has outed (and as of 15 minutes ago, ousted) colleague Doug Turnbull as the vile spammer that he…
Quepid – Stop shipping broken searches
Let’s face it, returning good search results means making money. To this end, we’re often hired to tune search to ensure that search results are as close as possible…
Search-Aware Product Recommendation in Solr
Building upon earlier work with semantic search, OpenSource Connections is excited to unveil exciting new possibilities with Solr-based product recommendation. With this technology, it is now possible to serve…
Easy k-NN Document Classification with Solr and Python
Youve got a problem: You have 1 buzzillion documents that must all be classified. Naturally, tagging them by hand is completely infeasible. However you are fortunate enough to have…
Classifying Non-Patent Literature to Aid in Prior Art Searches
Before a patent can be granted, it must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the innovation outlined by the patent application is indeed novel. Similarly, when defending ones…
Using SolrJ with BASIC authentication and SSL wrapped Solr
Do you have BASIC authentication turned on for Solr? Are you using a self signed SSL Certificate? Do you want to index to this server using SolrJ? Ive taken…
Using SolrCloud to clone your search index
The search engine GPSN has fairly static dataset of Chinese patents that is delivered via roughly 5 TB worth of very large ZIP files. The data for each patent…
Prototype Angular UIs Without A Backend
So youve got an AngularJS UI built out, but youll need a fleshed-out backend before being able to really take it for a test drive, right? Actually, it turns…
Solr Index Speed on EBS
If youve got your Solr index on an Amazon EBS volume, save yourself some headache and do this every time you make a new volume: sudo nohup dd if=/dev/xvdi…
Migrating American Medical Association’s search to Solr
Our client, Silverchair Information Systems, recently completed a successful migration of the American Medical Association’s search over to Solr. Leveraging Silverchair’s semantic platform, weve helped migrate Silverchairs SCM platform…