If you’ve tried Apache Solr you’ve probably had a chance to take it for a spin indexing and searching your data, and getting acquainted with its powerful, versatile new features and functions. Now, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and really master what Solr 1.4 has to offer.
Join Yonik Seeley, creator of Solr and co-founder of Lucid Imagination, for an in-depth review of Solr’s most powerful, productive features. Join us for an intensive “how-to” for the features you need to make the most of Solr for your search application:
This 4-hour tutorial in English with consecutive interpretation to Japanese will include a generous allowance of time for Q&A. Target audience is technical staff and engineers.
The cost of the pre-event tutorial is ￥25,000.
Cancellation Policy: We will provide a full refund of the tutorial fee if cancellation is received by 5pm JST on 4/16/10, by contacting forum2010@basistech.jp. No credit or refund can be given for no-shows, or registrations cancelled after 5pm JST on 4/16/10.
Since its establishment in 1997, goo has been the preferred independent search service in Japan. Catering to the unique linguistic characteristics of Japanese, we have continued to work towards optimizing search for each of our users.
A search service does not just return webpages. What is important is seamlessly retrieving information that fits the situation and action of the user at that moment. With our “search assistant” functionality, we aim to offer the best search experience possible to each individual user. The “action navigator” feature suggests a search context based on the input keywords and next-generation search functionality available (in beta) from our showcase “goo lab” increase the attraction of our service.
Furthermore, as a company which has been concerned with environmental issues since its start, we will introduce “green” goo, a search service that contributes a portion of proceeds to environment causes.
BIGLOBE search is a comprehensive search service for news, dictionary lookup, shopping, Q&A and more. In addition to BIGLOBE’s existing search, we will introduce three of our our newest services:
Search applications built with open source Apache Lucene/Solr are becoming ubiquitous at organizations and enterprises small and large. As the commercial entity for Lucene/Solr, Lucid Imagination offers a broad portfolio of software and service solutions, creating a solid commercial foundation for Lucene/Solr applications. Our unmatched expertise comes from a staff which includes people involved in early and current Lucene/Solr code development. Lucid Imagination’s search solutions are scalable, high-performing, and cost-effective. We customize and tune each installation to the customer’s needs for more relevant results and better user experience, resulting in more productivity, lower costs, and faster time to revenue.
The Rosette linguistics platform is a powerful suite of components for rapidly building multilingual search-based applications. By adding Rosette to your application, you can incorporate the same linguistic technology currently used by major web search engines such as NTT goo, NEC Biglobe, and Microsoft Bing—in Japanese and over 20 other languages. When indexing documents, Rosette handles every stage of text analysis—from identification of language and encoding, to segmentation and decompounding of words, to expansion of queries—to ensure relevant and complete search results. Today’s most compelling search-based applications go beyond keyword search and leverage automatically produced metadata to enable users to rapidly find what they are looking for or uncover new information and relationships. In this talk, we will examine several real-world scenarios to demonstrate how Rosette dramatically improves the search experience.
The Rosette linguistics platform is a powerful suite of components for rapidly building multilingual search-based applications. By adding Rosette to your application, you can incorporate the same linguistic technology currently used by major web search engines such as NTT goo, NEC Biglobe, and Microsoft Bing—in Japanese and over 20 other languages. When indexing documents, Rosette handles every stage of text analysis—from identification of language and encoding, to segmentation and decompounding of words, to expansion of queries—to ensure relevant and complete search results. Today’s most compelling search-based applications go beyond keyword search and leverage automatically produced metadata to enable users to rapidly find what they are looking for or uncover new information and relationships. In this talk, we will examine several real-world scenarios to demonstrate how Rosette dramatically improves the search experience.
Endeca’s unique Information Access Platform helps people find, analyze, and understand information across an entire organization. By bringing together content from file systems, content management systems, databases, email and other repositories, Endeca enables users to gain the relevant insights that foster better decisions and increase productivity. This talk will explore this powerful search and discovery solution that includes faceted advanced search and navigation for structured and unstructured information; delivery of content from internet and intranet applications relevant to each user; and revelation of content related to the user’s search to allow further exploration and discovery.
In just the past year, the adoption of Apache Solr, the open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, has greatly accelerated. Both enterprises and non-profit organizations all over the world are using Solr to build search into large-scale websites and software applications. This talk is a unique opportunity to hear from the creator of Apache Solr. Learn firsthand about who is using Solr, best practices for getting the most out of Solr, and performance tuning tips. In addition, the talk will discuss future plans and features for Solr.
There are many types of search – for the web, enterprise or desktop – but what is search at its core? How is it different from a database? From these simple questions, we ask, what is the role of text processing in search? What are the latest trends and more? This talk is for everyone interested in search technology but hesitates to ask the basic questions.
Open source Apache Solr is the base for the full-text search engine library Apache Lucene, and supplies an administration screen and a search application with a caching feature. Outside of Japan, Apache Solr is used by not only small to mid-size news sites, but also large-scale social networking services and news sites. What about Japan? How is Apache Solr being used here? Apache Solr Committer (one who commits code to the main Apache Solr source base) and Apache Lucene Contributor, Koji Sekiguchi, will discuss Apache Solr looking at the current state of its current Japanese support and provide useful tips to keep in mind when using Apache Solr with Japanese.
Often people, places and organizations are the most important pieces of information in documents. Whereas conventional search engines need keywords to find entities, systems like Basis Technology’s Rosette Entity Extractor (REX) find the entities without the user knowing which ones exist in the data. This technology allows users to efficiently extracting relevant information from large volumes of disparate sources.
This talk will introduce applications of entity extraction, including search relevance, navigation, and summarization. We will also demonstrate and explore the key features of REX.
The Open Source Apache Lucene/Solr search engine platform has matured significantly over the last few years and is increasingly becoming the search engine of choice in high-end search deployments, such as MySpace, LinkedIn, Apple, The Internet Archive and Netflix. This talk compares ESP with Apache Lucene/Solr, highlighting similarities, differences, strengths and weaknesses of both technologies. In addition, the talk will discuss important non-technical considerations when choosing a search engine.
The open-source search engine toolkit, Apache Lucene, and its companion search server, Apache Solr, are powering large-scale websites around the world, from commercial enterprises, such as IBM, Disney, and CNET, to non-profits, such as Wikipedia and the U.S. Library of Congress. The legacy of these tools has given them the undeserved reputation of being difficult to deploy, however this workshop will demonstrate how a basic Japanese search-based application can be constructed using Apache Solr and the Rosette linguistics platform.