On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Anthony <lsa4s...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > I have begun work on an integration of Apache Solr and Mahout, > http://github.com/algoriffic/lsa4solr which is related to #MAHOUT-343 > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-343 ). The > implementation is in Clojure and interfaces with both the > DistributedLanczosSolver and the distributed k-means clustering > algorithm from Mahout.
Java would have been nicer (Though I am saying that without knowing how well Clojure binaries can talk with Java ones and vice versa) > I am about to begin implementing a > hierarchical clustering algorithm so that the number of clusters does > not need to be specified in advance. Has anyone done anything like > this in Mahout yet? Also, I'd be happy to contribute the code to > Mahout if anyone is interested. > Hierarchical clustering is missing from Mahout at the moment, It will be great if you can help bring it to Mahout. > > Thanks, > Anthony > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jake Mannix <jman...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hey Anthony, > > We would love to have hierarchical clustering in Mahout, in Clojure or > > pure java. Come on over to the mahout-dev mailing list, and/or file > > a JIRA ticket, and join the fun, we'd love to work with you (and over > > on mahout-dev, you'll get even more positive feedback). > > If you'd rather, and aren't as familiar with the whole Apache process, > > I can file a JIRA ticket for you, and you can just comment there and > > start the conversation that way. > > Do you subscribe to the mahout-...@apache.org / mahout-user@ > > mailing lists? Their not too high traffic. > > -jake >
