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Author: Alessandro Benedetti <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 19 16:46:24 2026 +0100
Add the book How Large Language Models Can Help Your Search Project (#164)
(#167)
* Added the book info
* Update resources.md
- edited book image
- added solr description inside LLM in search book
- added years for each book in the resource page
- added London information retrieval & AI meetup playlist
* added new image
Co-authored-by: Lisa <[email protected]>
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@@ -58,7 +58,25 @@ If you want to run Solr on Kubernetes, the easiest way to
get started is via ins
If you have a Solr book that you would like to see listed here, please [edit
this website and submit a Pull Request](/editing-website.html).
-<h3 class="offset" id="book-inside-solr-lucene">Inside Apache Solr and Lucene:
Algorithms and Engineering Deep Dive</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="book-llms-in-search">How Large Language Models Can Help
Your Search Project [2025]</h3>
+
+<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-01563-1";><img
alt="How Large Language Models Can Help Your Search Project (cover)"
class="float-right" src="{static}/images/solr/LLMs-in-search.jpg"></a>
[Alessandro Benedetti](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbenedetti/) and
[Sease](https://www.sease.io) are proud to introduce the book, "[How Large
Language Models Can Help Your Search
Project](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-01563-1)".
+The primary scope of this book is to communicate the current state of the art
of large language model applications in the domain of information retrieval and
search with a pragmatic perspective on industrial adoption via open source
software.
+
+To this end, the book is organised in three parts: “Large Language Models”
gives an introduction to artificial intelligence and large language models,
including an overview of open source and commercial options. Next, “Large
Language Models and Search” describes techniques and strategies to integrate
large language models in search projects, including how to choose the right
model for a specific use case and how to avoid the classic mistakes that can
happen in the process. Eventually, “H [...]
+
+The book lays the foundations, deeply analyses the building blocks and shows
examples how to implement the ideas described. It highlights both the
positives, negatives and possible mitigations of the limitations. This way, it
caters primarily software engineers, data scientists and practitioners in
artificial intelligence or information retrieval who are curious to learn about
the latest trends, research and industrial applications related to search and
large language models.
+
+The book has a chapter dedicated to Apache Solr, exploring the ways you can
interact with Large Language Models related features, specifically:
+
+- dense vector search, quantisation and nested vectors
+- text vectorisation using LLM fine tuned for sentence similarity
+- Intro to Future features such as Retrieval augmented generation, Semantic
highlighting and LLM query parser
+
+[Buy Here](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-01563-1)
+
+***
+<h3 class="offset" id="book-inside-solr-lucene">Inside Apache Solr and Lucene:
Algorithms and Engineering Deep Dive [2025]</h3>
<a href="https://testmysearch.com/books/inside-solr.html";><img alt="Inside
Apache Solr and Lucene (cover)" class="float-right"
src="{static}/images/solr/book_inside_solr_lucene.png"></a>[Rauf
Aliev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/raufaliev/) is proud to announce his book,
"[Inside Apache Solr and Lucene: Algorithms and Engineering Deep
Dive](https://testmysearch.com/books/inside-solr.html)". This book dives deep
into the core of Apache Solr and Lucene, offering answers from a system enginee
[...]
@@ -70,7 +88,7 @@ The insights in this book extend beyond the Solr and Lucene
ecosystem. By using
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="book-relevant-search">Relevant Search</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="book-relevant-search">Relevant Search [2016]</h3>
Doug Turnbull, John Berryman and Manning Publications are proud to announce
*Relevant Search*.
This book demystifies relevance work and shows you that a search engine is a
programmable relevance framework. You'll learn how to apply Elasticsearch or
Solr to your business' unique ranking problems. The book demonstrates how to
program relevance and how to incorporate secondary data sources, taxonomies,
text analytics, and personalization. By the end, you’ll be able to achieve a
virtuous cycle of provable, measurable relevance improvements over a search
product’s lifetime.
@@ -79,7 +97,7 @@ This book demystifies relevance work and shows you that a
search engine is a pro
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="book-asess-3ed">Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server,
3rd Edition</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="book-asess-3ed">Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server,
3rd Edition [2015]</h3>
[David Smiley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley), [Eric
Pugh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/epugh), [Kranti
Parisa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/krantiparisa), and [Matt
Mitchell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmitchell4) are proud to *finally*
announce the book “[Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, Third
Edition](http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com)” by [Packt
Publishing](https://www.packtpub.com/). You can find links to buy it at
Packt’s site & Amazon from our book’s off [...]
@@ -94,7 +112,7 @@ Solr 4 was Solr's biggest release ever. We updated the
previous edition to cover
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="book-scaling-big-data-hadoop-solr-II">Scaling Big Data
with Hadoop and Solr - Second Edition</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="book-scaling-big-data-hadoop-solr-II">Scaling Big Data
with Hadoop and Solr - Second Edition [2015]</h3>
[Hrishikesh Karambelkar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrishik/) is proud to
announce the book "[Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr - Second
Edition](https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/scaling-big-data-hadoop-and-solr-second-edition)"
by [Packt Publishing](https://www.packtpub.com/). This book will help the
readers understand, design, build, and optimize their big data search engine
with Hadoop and Apache Solr.
@@ -107,7 +125,7 @@ Click
[here](https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/scaling
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="book-solr-search-patterns">Apache Solr Search
Patterns</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="book-solr-search-patterns">Apache Solr Search Patterns
[2015]</h3>
[Jayant Kumar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar) is proud to announce
the book "[Apache Solr Search Patterns](http://bit.ly/1J2neZ9)" by [Packt
Publishing](https://www.packtpub.com/). This book is for developers who have
prior knowledge on Solr and are looking at procuring advanced strategies for
improving their search using Solr. Also, if you work with analytics to generate
graphs and reports using Solr and you are a search architect who is looking
forward to scale your search us [...]
@@ -120,7 +138,7 @@ Click [here](http://bit.ly/1J2neZ9) to read more about the
Apache Solr Search Pa
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="book-solr-cookbook-3ed">Solr Cookbook - Third
Edition</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="book-solr-cookbook-3ed">Solr Cookbook - Third Edition
[2015]</h3>
[Rafał Kuć](https://pl.linkedin.com/in/rafalkuc) is proud to *finally*
announce the book "[Solr Cookbook - Third Edition](http://bit.ly/1Q2AGS8)" by
[Packt Publishing](https://www.packtpub.com/). This edition will specifically
appeal to developers who wish to quickly get to grips with the changes and new
features of Apache Solr 5.
@@ -133,7 +151,7 @@ Click [here](http://bit.ly/1Q2AGS8) to read more about the
Solr Cookbook - Third
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="mastering-apache-solr">Mastering Apache Solr</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="mastering-apache-solr">Mastering Apache Solr [2014]</h3>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieun";>Mathieu Nayrolles</a> and
Inkstall Publications are proud to announce their latest book — [Mastering
Apache
Solr](http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Apache-Solr-practical-guide/dp/8192784509).
This book will empower you to provide a world-class search experience to your
end users through the discovery of the powerful mechanisms presented in it.
@@ -148,7 +166,7 @@ Click [here](http://bit.ly/1Q2AGS8) to read more about the
Solr Cookbook - Third
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="solr-in-action">Solr in Action</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="solr-in-action">Solr in Action [2014]</h3>
Trey Grainger, Timothy Potter, and Manning Publications are proud to announce
[Solr in Action](http://solrinaction.com), a comprehensive (638 pg.),
example-driven guide covering through Solr 4.7.
@@ -158,7 +176,7 @@ Trey Grainger, Timothy Potter, and Manning Publications are
proud to announce [S
[Buy here](http://solrinaction.com)
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="einfuehrung-in-apache-solr">Einführung in Apache
Solr</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="einfuehrung-in-apache-solr">Einführung in Apache Solr
[2014]</h3>
<a
href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/einfuhrung-in-apache/9783955614249/";
title="Einführung in Apache Solr"><img alt="Einführung in Apache Solr Cover"
class="float-right" src="{static}/images/solr/book-eias.jpg"></a>
<p>Markus Klose, Daniel Wrigley and O’Reilly are proud to present the first
book on Apache Solr in German.</p>
@@ -174,7 +192,7 @@ Trey Grainger, Timothy Potter, and Manning Publications are
proud to announce [S
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="instant-apache-solr-for-indexing-data-how-to">Instant
Apache Solr for Indexing Data How-to</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="instant-apache-solr-for-indexing-data-how-to">Instant
Apache Solr for Indexing Data How-to [2013]</h3>
<a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Apache-Solr-Indexing-Data/dp/1782164847";
title="Packt: Instant Apache Solr for Indexing Data How-to"><img alt="Instant
Apache Solr for Indexing Data How-to - cover" class="float-right"
src="{static}/images/solr/book_s4index.jpg"></a>
Alexandre Rafalovitch and Packt Publishing are proud to announce [Instant
Apache Solr for Indexing Data
How-to](https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Apache-Solr-Indexing-Data/dp/1782164847)
- an example-driven guide that will take you on a journey from the basic
collection of data to a multi-lingual, multi-field, multi-type schema.
@@ -185,7 +203,7 @@ Content and data searching is a very important part of the
modern user experienc
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="apache-solr-4-cookbook">Apache Solr 4 Cookbook</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="apache-solr-4-cookbook">Apache Solr 4 Cookbook
[2013]</h3>
<a href="http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-4-cookbook/book"; title="Packt:
Apache Solr 4 Cookbook"><img alt="Apache Solr 4 Cookbook cover"
class="float-right" src="{static}/images/solr/book_s4c.jpg"></a>
Rafał Kuć and Packt Publishing are proud to announce the second edition of
[Apache Solr 4 Cookbook](http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-4-cookbook/book).
The Cookbook is newly updated and improved with new chapters on SolrCloud and
every chapter updated to Solr 4.
@@ -200,7 +218,7 @@ With numerous practical chapters centered on important Solr
techniques and metho
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="taming-text">Taming Text</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="taming-text">Taming Text [2012]</h3>
<a href="http://www.manning.com/ingersoll/"; title="Taming Text"><img
alt="Taming Text cover" class="float-right"
src="{static}/images/solr/book_tt.png"></a>
Taming Text is a hands-on, example-driven guide to working with unstructured
text in the context of real-world applications. This book explores how to
automatically organize text using approaches such as full-text search with
Apache Solr (v3), proper name recognition,
@@ -211,7 +229,7 @@ is available on
[Github](https://github.com/tamingtext/book).
***
-<h3 class="offset" id="apache-solr-3.1-cookbook">Apache Solr 3.1 Cookbook</h3>
+<h3 class="offset" id="apache-solr-3.1-cookbook">Apache Solr 3.1 Cookbook
[2011]</h3>
<a
href="http://www.packtpub.com/solr-3-1-enterprise-search-server-cookbook/book";
title="PACKT: Apache Solr 3.1 Cookbook"><img alt="Solr Cookbook cover"
class="float-right" src="{static}/images/solr/book_s3c.png"></a>
Rafał Kuć is proud to introduce a new book on Solr, [Apache Solr 3.1
Cookbook](http://www.packtpub.com/solr-3-1-enterprise-search-server-cookbook/book)
from Packt Publishing.
@@ -250,6 +268,8 @@ If you have a Solr video that you would like to see listed
here, please [edit th
[Videos from Lucidwork's Lucene
Eurocon](https://vimeo.com/search?q=lucene%20eurocon)
+[Videos from past London Information Retrieval & AI
Meetups](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3MGdCOBPhsccrQRGrUjQlzRSdlWrcF9N)
+
<h3 class="offset" id="youtube">YouTube</h3>
[Search YouTube for Solr](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=solr)
