Hi, Thank you for the warm welcome, I feel very honoured to have been made a Tika committer.
A few lines about myself : I am the director of a DigitalPebble, a small consultancy based in Bristol, UK. I started using Lucene back in 2001, made a few small contributions to it and started LIMO - an open source web application used for monitoring Lucene indices. Over the last 3 years I have used and contributed to quite a few Apache projects such as SOLR, UIMA, Nutch and Tika. I am also a Nutch committer since last Devember and am actively working on NutchBase, which will (probably) become Nutch 2.0 at some point. I have used Tika quite a lot in the last couple of years, notably by writing a Tika component for Apache UIMA and a parse plugin for Nutch. Most of the parsing duties have already been delegated to Tika in the forthcoming Nutch 1.1 and this trend will continue in Nutch 2.0. I will probably spend some time porting the missing parsers from Nutch to Tika (e.g. feeds) and dig a bit more on any bugs that my Nutch crawls could reveal (e.g. errors in mime-type magic detection). My activities at DigitalPebble also cover Natural Language Processing (which is my initial background), text analysis and I recently started an open source project named Behemoth which allows to scale text analysis applications using Hadoop. Best, Julien Nioche -- DigitalPebble Ltd Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering http://www.digitalpebble.com Julien On 5 June 2010 23:42, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > In recognition of his contributions to the Tika project, the Tika PMC has > voted to make Julien Nioche a Tika PMC member and committer, and Julien has > accepted! > > Julien, please feel free to say a few words about yourself, and most > importantly, welcome aboard! > > Cheers, > Chris > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > >
