Hi Grant, Not sure if this qualifies as a "bet you didn't know", but one could use Lucene term vectors to construct document vectors for similarity, clustering and classification tasks. I found this out recently (although I am probably not the first one), and I think this could be quite useful.
-sujit On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 11:11 +0200, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm giving a talk at ApacheCon titled "Bet you didn't know Lucene can..." > (http://na11.apachecon.com/talks/18396). It's based on my observation, that > over the years, a number of us in the community have done some pretty cool > things using Lucene that don't fit under the core premise of full text > search. I've got a fair number of ideas for the talk (easily enough for 1 > hour), but I wanted to reach out to hear your stories of ways you've (ab)used > Lucene and Solr to see if we couldn't extend the conversation to a bit more > than the conference and also see if I can't inject more ideas beyond the ones > I have. I don't need deep technical details, but just high level use case > and the basic insight that led you to believe Lucene could solve the problem. > > Thanks in advance, > Grant > > -------------------------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://www.lucidimagination.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
