Presentations and discussions on Lucene/Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform.

Featured speakers:

• NEW Cool Linguistic Tricks to Apply to Search Results: A source code level demonstration using LingPipe Breck Baldwin, Founder, LingPipe: The talk will cover post-processing options for Twitter searches. I will cover clustering and classification with some potential for conceptual indexing at the level of persons/orgs/locations. There will be a demo available for download that runs the examples and contains the source.
  
• Solr 1.5 and Beyond: Yonik Seeley, author of Solr, co-founder, Lucid Imagination Topics will include new faceting functionality, new function queries, increased scalability, field collapsing, and spatial search. There will also be a discussion about the recently announced Lucene/Solr merge, the rationale, its implications, and plans for its completion. The talk will span features already included in trunk, features slated for the next release, as well as incomplete features under consideration for future releases.
  

Presentations followed by Lightning Talks from community members, and then we'll hang out and socialize. Interested in a lightning talk? Post your presentation topic in on our meetup message board.

We'll have some food and beverages. Questions? Contact [masked]