Re: TREC Collection, NIST and Lucene

2007-08-10 Thread Tom White
> Furthermore, I think it would > encourage Lucene users/developers to think about relevance as much as > we think about speed. +1 However I think it would be much better to start by making informal approaches as you suggest - the open letter seems to me to be appropriate only as a last resort.

Re: Author Tags

2007-07-06 Thread Tom White
Hadoop recently removed all @author tags: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1147. Tom On 05/07/07, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Solr just suggested (http://www.mail-archive.com/solr- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04883.html) that they remove Author tags for a variety of good rea

Re: Lucene does NOT use UTF-8

2005-08-30 Thread Tom White
On 8/30/05, Ken Krugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Daniel Naber wrote: > > > >>On Monday 29 August 2005 19:56, Ken Krugler wrote: > >> > >>>"Lucene writes strings as a VInt representing the length of the > >>>string in Java chars (UTF-16 code units), followed by the character > >>>data." > >>

Re: [ANN] Lucene "Did You Mean" article on java.net

2005-08-18 Thread Tom White
are there instead of here. > > Erik > > > On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Tom White wrote: > > > In case subscribers to this list missed it, my article on how to add a > > "did you mean" facility to Lucene searches was published last week: >

[ANN] Lucene "Did You Mean" article on java.net

2005-08-17 Thread Tom White
In case subscribers to this list missed it, my article on how to add a "did you mean" facility to Lucene searches was published last week: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/08/09/didyoumean.html. Regards, Tom - To unsubscri

Re: Map-Reduce

2005-08-10 Thread Tom White
This might be what you're looing for: http://computefarm.jini.org/. Cheers, Tom On 8/4/05, Cheolgoo Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, it would be great if we had a Directory subclass like > MapReduceDirectory. > > I'm looking for the ComputeFarm that is implemented a distributed > parall