Dear Mahout Developers, I'm Yang Jie, a MSc student in Computer Science from China. I am eager to apply for the project of Implement Integration of Mahout Clustering or Classification with Apache Solr[Mahout-343].
I am very interested in large-scale machine learning – also one of the directions of my group - and indexing in the information retrieval. That is the reason why I chose the large scaled topical partitional indexing as my graduates' dissertation. As a result, when found it, I was quite attracted! It is related to my work so that I could pay enough time into this project. If get this honor, I will try my best to make it as pretty as I can. My main purpose about this project is to add a classification algorithm to the index module to Solr, if I had understood the description correctly. The main target to use the plugin on of my plan will focus on Solr's indexing module. That means, tests of my plugin will be on this module firstly. I have now read the code of lucene, tested the Mahout and indexing of lucene on Map/Reduce and had a preliminary understand upon Solr. What I am doing now is gathering the data structure and plugin information of Solr. Currently, there is still some questions in my mind: 1. Should I impletement a plugin to Solr which could handle any of the classification algorithms in Mahout based on the data schema, or is it a plugin only for one of the classification algorithms? This is what I didn't understand from the name of the project(sorry). 2. I've now run some algorithms in Mahout on the Map/Reduce cluster, and tried Solr, but still lack of further information about this project. Then how could I get start with it? I am now going on with the plugin introduction of Solr. If got your help, I will be quite encouraged. The project is a meaningful experience for me, and it attracts me to pay my energy on it. I will try my best to complete it. Best wishes ! -- Yang Jie（杨杰） hi.baidu.com/thinkdifferent Group of CLOUD, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University PHONE: 86 1346888 3723 TEL: 86 29 82665263 EXT. 608 MSN: xtyangjie2...@yahoo.com.cn once i didn't know software is not free; then i knew it days later; now i find it indeed free.
