On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Robin Anil <robin.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hmm... this was a bit scattered of a response, but I'm really loathe > > to turn away a) nice hooks between Solr and Mahout, b) scripting-style > > wrappers which could expand our community, and c) simply new > > functionality. > > > > +1 > I definitely don't want to turn it away, I want to ensure that duplication > of stuff don't happen and the heavy lifting is indeed done in Java and it > should be easy enough for anyone to consume in any existing app in any > language, Even something as crazy as COBOL apps calling Mahout classifiers > http://www.emunix.emich.edu/info/cobol/books/dpjafc.htm > > LSA implementation should actually be in Mahout core. I would love it to be > LSA in pure java is on my roadmap, it's not much work to do on top of what we already have, actually. The question is what you do with it - putting it inside of Lucene is one way, and making a simple standalone latent semantic index is another, but that's definitely a core feature, regardless of what wrapper we have. -jake