For more information on the Open Source Search Conference:
Miryon Pak +1 (617) 386-2090
Call For Presentations
The 2011 Open Source Search Conference will be held on June 15, 2011 in McLean, VA and we invite you to submit a presentation. The conference will be attended by government employees and contractors who are evaluating, building, or using Apache Solr for search applications throughout the government.
Preceding the conference will be two-day Apache Solr tutorials taught by Solr experts from Lucid Imagination (June 13-14).
Submission Instructions
Topics can be submitted by e-mail to solr2011@basistech.com and are due by March 1, 2011. To submit a presentation, e-mail the following information:
- Title:
- Author:
- Description of presentation (100-150 words):
- Brief description of author’s experience with Solr:
- Is this talk targeted towards users or developers?:
Suggested Topics
Talks centered around Apache Open Source Search are welcomed. We are looking for both technical and non-technical talks. Suggested topics include:
- Large-scale Apache Solr
- Solr at exabyte scale
- High-load deployments
- Complex queries
- Analytic interfaces
- Geospatial search
- Iterative Analytics using Solr (index reprocessing, etc.)
- Exploring and Discovering Big Data with Solr
- Linguistic plug-in use and development
- Document clustering (semantic, field collapsing, dynamic faceting)
- Language identification
- Search in a multilingual site
- Sentiment analysis
- Text Mining
- Text analytics processing
- Entity extraction
- Name matching
- Security
- Access control
- Index encryption
- Case studies and user experiences
- Migrating to Solr from other search engines
- Other topics
About the Conference
The Open Source Search Conference is sponsored by Basis Technology, which has been producing government conferences since 2006 focusing on topics including text analytics, human language technology, and the nexus of language, culture and technology for the federal community.
Basis Technology provides software solutions for text analytics, information retrieval, and name resolution in over 25 languages. Our customers include leading software vendors, content providers, financial institutions, and government agencies in the defense and intelligence industry.