DC Area (NOVA) Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup

Join us on Thursday, September 18th, for an evening of networking and the below presentation. Please be sure to RSVP with both first and last name so we can include you on the guest list, and bring a picture ID to access the building.

"Hacking Lucene for Custom Results" presented by Doug Turnbull, OpenSource Connections

Summary: Search is everywhere, and therefore so is Apache Lucene. While providing amazing out-of-the-box defaults, there's enough projects weird enough to require custom search scoring and ranking. In this talk, I'll walk through how to use Lucene to implement your custom scoring and search ranking. We'll see how you can achieve both amazing power (and responsibility) over your search results. We'll see the flexibility of Lucene's data structures and explore the pros/cons of custom Lucene scoring vs other methods of improving search relevancy.

Bio: Doug Turnbull is a Search Relevancy Expert at OpenSource Connections. A frequent blogger and speaker, Doug enjoys the intersection of usability and systems programming. That's exactly what he finds in search -- low-level code that directly impacts user's lives. In his search work, Doug bridges the gap between content experts and technologists. To help bridge the gap, Doug created Quepid a search relevancy collaboration canvas used extensively in OpenSource Connection's search work.