Breakfast Links 01.12.2008

* Start of german Lucene Online Series

JAXenter just started a new article series on Apache Lucene by Bernd Fondermann. The first article roughly describes Lucene and it’s API with and indexing and search example. Nothing new, but in german. Later articles will cover Solr, Nutch and Tika (yeeehaa)!

* Concept Searching

Stephen Arnold on Concept Searching Inc. which delivers software products around taxonomy creation and automatic classification. Again, this company also offers its services and products around Microsoft Sharepoint!

Breakfast Links 18.11.2008

* Synaptica Announces SharePoint Integration

Last week I wrote about Stephen Arnolds outlook about Enterprise Search in 2009, where he pointed out the importance of Microsoft Sharepoint Integration. Have look at Synaptica (Dow Jones) and their Taxonomy System as a Sharepoint Integration.

* White Paper: Multilevel Bayesian Models of Categorical Data Annotation

Scientific White Paper about Bayesian Categorization and an approach to evaluate categorization models made by annotators. LingPipe (alias-i) also provides concrete code using this method in their development sandbox.

* ApacheCon US 2008 Lucene (And Beyond) Sessions

Created a quick overview on Lucene (and Mahout, Tika) presentations at the ApacheCon US 2008 in New Orleans.