Lucene/Solr Revolution just keeps getting better every year, and this year was clearly the best year yet!
I saw two major themes that I'd say about about 2/3 of the talk were focused on: 1) Search Relevancy 2) Analytics I'd definitely say that that there's a greatly emerging landscape of presentations covering the cutting-edge of search relevancy. Michael Nilsson and Diego Ceccarelli from Bloomberg gave a presentation on a Learning to Rank (aka "Machine-Learned Ranking") Solr plugin they are developing and hoping to open source soon, which I took particular interest in, as I've got a bit of background there and am working toward developing something similar over the next few months. In other words, I'm sitting on the edge of my chair waiting on them to open source it to hopefully save my team months of similar work : ) Fiona Condon from Etsy also gave a great talk on relevancy from a different perspective - preventing keyword stuffing/seo gaming/monopoly of their search results and ensuring uniqueness and fairness in search results in a system where those contributing the content are all incentivized to game the system to achieve maximum exposure. There were also several other relevancy talks I missed, including one from Simon Hughes from Dice.com on leveraging Latent Semantic Indexing and Word2Vec to add conceptual search into Solr. This is a topic I remember being talked about by folks like John Berryman back as early as 2013, but it looks like Dice released some open source code that can be easily tied into Solr, which is really exciting to see. There were many other presentation on emerging relevancy strategies (sorry if I left your name off), but I'll have to wait to review the videos with everyone else once they are posted. My talk (which Alexandre mentioned earlier) was also on relevancy, specifically describing building a knowledge graph and intent engine within Solr that can be used to intelligently parse entities and understand their relationships dynamically from queries and documents using nothing but the search index and query logs. (Slides here: http://www.treygrainger.com/posts/presentations/leveraging-lucene-solr-as-a-knowledge-graph-and-intent-engine/ ) In addition to the many relevancy topic, there was another thread within the presentations (more committer-driven) around analytics. Specifically, Tim Potter from LucidWorks (my co-author on Solr in Action) gave a great presentation on using Spark with Solr, Joel Bernstein and Erick Erickson gave talks on the recent streaming analytics and parallel computing work that's being added to Solr, and Yonik Seeley presented on the new JSON faceting API and the enhanced analytical capabilities therein. Once again, several other talks on faceting and analytics, but there was quite a strong committer focus on that topic. Definitely worth checking out the slides and videos when they are posted - lots of really good material all around. Trey Grainger Co-author, Solr in Action Director of Engineering, Search & Recommendations @ CareerBuilder On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Doug Turnbull < dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote: > Here's a bit from my colleague Eric Pugh summarizing Grants keynote. > Admittedly he's also focussing a lot on our firms relevance > capabilities/products (the keynote was on relevance) so extensive shameless > plug warning included with this link :) > > > http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/10/15/bad-behaviors-in-tuning-search-results/ > > On Sunday, October 18, 2015, Susheel Kumar <susheel2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I couldn't also make it. Would love to hear more who make it. > > > > Thanks, > > Susheel > > > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Jack Krupansky < > jack.krupan...@gmail.com > > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > > Sorry I missed out this year. I thought it was next month and hadn't > seen > > > any reminders. Just last Tuesday I finally got around to googling the > > > conference and was shocked to read that it was the next day. Oh well. > > > Personally I'm less interested in the formal sessions than the informal > > > networking. > > > > > > In any case, keep those user reports flowing. I'm sure there are plenty > > of > > > people who didn't make it to the conference. > > > > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com > > <javascript:;>> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > The Revolution was not televised (though heavily tweeted, and videos > of > > > > sessions to follow eventually). A great time was had by all. Much > > > > learning! Much collaboration. Awesome event if I may say so myself. > > I'm > > > > proud to be a part of the organization that put on the best > conference > > > I've > > > > been to to date (til next years Revolution). Don't miss the next one > :) > > > > > > > > Re ES/AWS: what about it? Solr is a first class AWS citizen, > > employing > > > > Solr folks, and certainly where many of our customers deploy their > > > > infrastructure, Solr, Fusion, etc. > > > > > > > > Erik > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 18, 2015, at 01:02, William Bell <billnb...@gmail.com > > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > How did Lucene Revolution 2015 go last week? > > > > > > > > > > Also, what about Amazon's release of Elastic Search as a managed > > > service > > > > in > > > > > AWS? > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Bill Bell > > > > > billnb...@gmail.com <javascript:;> > > > > > cell 720-256-8076 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > *Doug Turnbull **| *Search Relevance Consultant | OpenSource Connections > <http://opensourceconnections.com>, LLC | 240.476.9983 > Author: Relevant Search <http://manning.com/turnbull> > This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be > Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless > of whether attachments are marked as such. >
