Hiring solr experts

2010-08-07 Thread Asif Rahman
Hi all, Does anyone here have any experience hiring solr experts? Are there any specific channels that you had good success with? Thanks, Asif -- Asif Rahman Lead Engineer - NewsCred a...@newscred.com http://platform.newscred.com

Re: Hiring solr experts

2010-08-07 Thread Asif Rahman
/Support On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Asif Rahman a...@newscred.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone here have any experience hiring solr experts? Are there any specific channels that you had good success with? Thanks, Asif -- Asif Rahman Lead Engineer - NewsCred

Re: how to test solr's performance?

2010-06-10 Thread Asif Rahman
and iostat. Recently http://www.newrelic.com/solr.html has been released -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/how-to-test-solr-s-performance-tp881928p885025.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Asif Rahman Lead Engineer

Re: Index-time vs. search-time boosting performance

2010-06-07 Thread Asif Rahman
it into a field query by boosting date ranges. You would group in date ranges: documents in September would be boosted 1.0, October 2.0, November 3.0 etc. On 6/5/10, Asif Rahman a...@newscred.com wrote: Thanks everyone for your help so far. I'm still trying to get to the bottom of whether switching

Re: Index-time vs. search-time boosting performance

2010-06-05 Thread Asif Rahman
#How_can_I_boost_the_score_of_newer_documents Sorry, this doesn't answer your question, but does contribute the fact that some author of the FAQ at some point considered index-time boost not neccesarily unreasonable. From: Asif Rahman [a...@newscred.com] Sent

Index-time vs. search-time boosting performance

2010-06-04 Thread Asif Rahman
if I would see a performance improvement by switching over to index-time boosting. Thanks, Asif -- Asif Rahman Lead Engineer - NewsCred a...@newscred.com http://platform.newscred.com

Re: Index-time vs. search-time boosting performance

2010-06-04 Thread Asif Rahman
titles may match other parts of this query HTH Erick On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Asif Rahman a...@newscred.com wrote: Hi, What are the performance ramifications for using a function-based boost at search time (through bf in dismax parser) versus an index-time boost

Re: Index-time vs. search-time boosting performance

2010-06-04 Thread Asif Rahman
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Asif Rahman a...@newscred.com wrote: Perhaps I should have been more specific in my initial post. I'm doing date-based boosting on the documents in my index, so as to assign a higher score to more recent documents. Currently I'm using a boost function

Stemming Filters in wiki

2010-05-19 Thread Asif Rahman
I see that the entries for PorterStemFilterFactory, EnglishPorterFilterFactory, and SnowballPorterFilterFactory have been removed from the Analyzers, Tokenizers, and Token Filters wiki page. Is there a reason for this? Thanks, asif -- Asif Rahman Lead Engineer - NewsCred a...@newscred.com

Re: Solr 1.5 in production

2010-02-22 Thread Asif Rahman
shape data? On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.orgwrote: On Feb 20, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Asif Rahman wrote: One piece of functionality that I need is the ability to index a spatial shape. I've begun implementing this for solr 1.4 using just the spatial

Re: Solr 1.5 in production

2010-02-20 Thread Asif Rahman
, at 4:54 PM, Asif Rahman wrote: What is the prevailing opinion on using solr 1.5 in a production environment? I know that many people were using 1.4 in production for a while before it became an official release. Specifically I'm interested in using some of the new spatial features

Solr 1.5 in production

2010-02-19 Thread Asif Rahman
What is the prevailing opinion on using solr 1.5 in a production environment? I know that many people were using 1.4 in production for a while before it became an official release. Specifically I'm interested in using some of the new spatial features. Thanks, Asif -- Asif Rahman Lead

Re: Facets with an IDF concept

2009-10-09 Thread Asif Rahman
://www.nabble.com/Facets-with-an-IDF-concept-tp24071160p24959192.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Asif Rahman Lead Engineer - NewsCred a...@newscred.com http://platform.newscred.com

Facet filtering

2009-08-20 Thread Asif Rahman
unmodified and post-process the query. This solution is less elegant than one that could be completely contained within Solr. I also imagine that it would be less performant. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Asif -- Asif Rahman Lead Engineer - NewsCred a...@newscred.com http

Re: Create incremental snapshot

2009-07-10 Thread Asif Rahman
Mangar. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Create-incremental-snapshot-tp23109877p24405434.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Asif Rahman Lead Engineer - NewsCred a...@newscred.com http://platform.newscred.com

Re: Facets with an IDF concept

2009-06-23 Thread Asif Rahman
thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Asif On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Asif Rahman a...@newscred.com wrote: Hi all, We have an index of news articles that are tagged with news topics. Currently, we use solr facets to see which topics are popular for a given

Re: Facets with an IDF concept

2009-06-23 Thread Asif Rahman
idf's through the Similarity API. Is my reasoning sound? Can you provide any guidance as to the best way to implement this? Thanks for your help, Asif On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.orgwrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Asif Rahman wrote: Hi again, I

Facets with an IDF concept

2009-06-17 Thread Asif Rahman
Hi all, We have an index of news articles that are tagged with news topics. Currently, we use solr facets to see which topics are popular for a given query or time period. I'd like to apply the concept of IDF to the facet counts so as to penalize the topics that occur broadly through our index.

Re: Incorrect sort with with function query in query parameters

2009-05-18 Thread Asif Rahman
I have been intending to although I have been dragging my feet on it. I've never opened a bug before so I'm not sure of the protocol. If you don't mind, it would be great if you could send me a pm and point me in the right direction. Thanks, Asif On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Ensdorf Ken

Re: Incorrect sort with with function query in query parameters

2009-03-27 Thread Asif Rahman
Hi Otis, Any documents marked deleted in this index are just the result of updates to those documents. There are no purely deleted documents. Furthermore, the field that I am ordering by in my function query remains untouched over the updates. I've read in other posts that the logic used by

Incorrect sort with with function query in query parameters

2009-03-26 Thread Asif Rahman
Hi all, I'm having an issue with the order of my results when attempting to sort by a function in my query. Looking at the debug output of the query, the score returned with in the result section for any given document does not match the score in the debug output. It turns out that if I