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Apache Lucene

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Paper Review - "Apache Lucene 4." SIGIR 2012 workshop on open source information retrieval

Fundamentals of Information Retrieval, Illustration with Apache Lucene

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  • Looking for small libraries implemented in multiple langauges
    I have to find a few examples of relatively small programming libraries that has been rewritten/ported to C++, C# and Java. Example: Lucene (it isn't that small, but still shows what I'm looking for). Source: about 1 year ago
  • HBO Max needs to stop purging its content.
    He is talking about impacting the search algorithm. Putting a “+” sounds like it is negatively impacting search quality. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Whoever worked on Steam's search engine needs a raise.
    For example Lucene is a core project common to many search engines, lots of things built ontop of it. And there are similar libraries Https://lucene.apache.org/core/. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Prometheus vs Elasticsearch stack - Key concepts, features, and differences
    Full-text search Elasticsearch is built on top of Apache Lucene, an open-source information retrieval software. Apache Lucene enables Elasticsearch can perform complex full-text searches using a single or combination of word phrases against its No SQL database. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
  • A simple but efficient algorithm for searching a large dataset of objects?
    If I had control of the back end I would implement a full-text engine such as Lucene. Generate the lookup table as a batch job and then perform the FTS when the request comes in. If you try to do this real-time, your search will take exponentially longer the larger the data set gets. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Need CLI tool that can handle large txt files and another tool that can conduct a lightning fast search of disk files.
    For fast searching, it usually requires indexing the files in question. There are a number of text-file indexing solutions, many of which use xapian, sphinx, or lucene/solr under the hood. Based on conditions (watching files/directories, cron jobs, new-mail triggers, etc), they'll add/remove files to the index, and you can then use a corresponding command to compose queries across that data. If it's indexed, it... Source: about 2 years ago
  • Service with 30+ Years of financial statements for free
    Honest question; why isn't this seen as a pretty simple affair (e.g. Like something quickly achievable with a Lucene instance)? To be clear, I understand that it's probably due to factors beyond what you're describing in a single sentence, so I'm asking for an explanation more than anything. Source: over 2 years ago

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Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written completely in Java. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

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