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11th March 2009 - Link Blog

Guardian + Lucene = Similar Articles + Categorisation. Alf Eaton loaded 13,000 Guardian articles tagged Science in to Solr and Lucene and is using Solr’s MoreLikeThisHandler to find related articles and automatically apply Guardian tags to Nature News articles.

Posted 11th March 2009 at 12:53 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 11th March 2009.

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