Hello, For those living in or near NYC, you may be interested in joining (and/or presenting?) at the NYC Search & Discovery Meetup. Topics are: search, machine learning, data mining, NLP, information gathering, information extraction, etc.
http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Search-and-Discovery/ Our previous/first meetup was about solr-python and parse.ly (a service that makes use of Solr and solr-python). Tomorrow (December 2 2009) we have: Incorporating Probabilistic Retrieval Knowledge into TFIDF-based Search Engine You can RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Search-and-Discovery/calendar/11745435/ Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Solr - Lucene - Nutch