In the majority of system implementations I dealt with, sooner or later, there was a problem – search results tunning. One of the simplest ways to improve the search results quality was phrase boosting. Having the three most popular query parsers in Solr and the variety of parameters to control them I though it will be a good idea to check how they behave and how they affect performance.
Lucene Eurocon 2010
Following the announcement by the Apache Software Foundation’s intention to abandon the organization of ApacheCon conference on the old continent, we Europeans were left with no conference under the sign of the Apache near us. But as we all know, nature does not like emptiness, and thus the company Lucid Imagination, in cooperation with the sponsors, decided to organize the first conference dedicated to Lucene and Solr – Lucene Eurocon. Due to the fact that we had the pleasure to participate in this conference, we decided to pass you a short account of its progress.