Thu. 21st July, 2011 / 6:30pm

Lucene/Solr Open-Source Enterprise Search Engines

Speaker: Kazuaki Hiraga

Senior Software Engineer, Basis Technology (Japanese)

Maybe we can no longer survive in a world without Google search, search is an indispensable part of our daily life. Not just Google search; the use of enterprise search—such as local search within web sites, or information retrieval on intranets—is expanding rapidly.

Many enterprise search engines are derivatives of the free-of-charge Lucene/Solr open-source Apache projects—said to be used by giants like Disney, Apple, AT&T, Cisco, NASA, LinkedIn, Twitter, and well over 4,000 other organizations worldwide. Lucene/Solr built-in functionality makes it relatively easy to develop cutting-edge search-based apps.

The presentation will explain various facets of search technology—including the demand for multilingual search—and describe/demo some Apache Lucene/Solr case studies/applications.

Kazuaki (“Kazu”) Hiraga is an information and telecomms engineering graduate of Tokai University, Japan. He’s active in the Gengo Shori Gakkai multilingual text processing study group, and has about 10 years’ search engine industry experience.

He started his career at NTT DoCoMo Systems. At Infoseek Japan, he first became acquainted with Basis Tech’s Rosette Linguistics Platform when integrating it with the (now Rakuten-owned) Ultraseek Japanese search engine. Next, he was a Snr. Enterprise Search Platform Engr. at FAST, joining Basis Tech. K.K. in 2008.

Basis Tech. is a leading provider of multilingual text analysis, text mining, and forensics, as well as Lucene/Solr-based search solutions. Founded in 1995, Basis is headquartered in Cambridge, MA (U.S.A), and has a Tokyo office, Basis Tech. KK.

Date: Thursday, 21st July
Time: 18:30 open, 19:00 start, 20:30 end.
Venue: Foreign Correspondents' Club (20F) Map
Cost*: ¥4,000 ICA members,
¥6,000 non-members. Open to all; RSVP, pay at door.
*Light buffet dinner included.

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