Founder @ Searchkernel, author of
AI-Powered Search and Solr in Action, startup Advisor, researcher/ public speaker on search, relevance & ranking, recommendation systems, and natural language processing.
I was fortunate to be able to speak last week (along with Joe Streeky, my Search Infrastructure Development Manager) at the very first Atlanta Solr Meetup held at Atlanta Tech Village. The talk covered how we scale Solr at CareerBuilder to power our recommendation engine, semantic search platform, and big data analytics products. Thanks to […]
Paper Abstract: Common difficulties like the cold-start problem and a lack of sufficient information about users due to their limited interactions have been major challenges for most recommender systems (RS). To overcome these challenges and many similar ones that result in low accuracy (precision and recall) recommendations, we propose a novel system that extracts semantically-related […]
Timothy Potter and I were recently interviewed about the launch of our new book, Solr in Action, which was published last month. If you want to learn more about the book or just hear about our two-year journey to bring what critics are calling the “definitive guide” to Solr to market, please check out the […]
After nearly two years of writing, editing, and coding up examples, I’m excited to announce that Solr in Action has finally been published! We released our first “early access” version back in October of 2012 and have since been working tirelessly to round out this comprehensive (664 pages!) guide covering versions through Solr 4.7. Solr […]
I just got back from a fantastic trip to Dublin, Ireland for last week’s Lucene/Solr Revolution EU. I was privileged this year to to present a deep dive (75 minute) session on “Enhancing Relevancy through Personalization & Semantic Search.” I appreciate all the great questions and feedback from everyone who attended. Video: Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/treygrainger/enhancing-relevancy-through-personalization-semantic-search-28741313 Talk […]
I just made it back from the beautiful, sunny city of San Diego where LucidWorks hosted another fantastic Lucene/Solr Revolution conference this week. I was invited back this year to present on “Building a Real-time, Big Data Analytics Platform with Solr.” Thank you to everyone who came and packed out the room, especially those who […]
I’m excited to announce early access availability of Solr in Action, a book on Apache Solr 4 which I am co-authoring with Timothy Potter. The MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) released today, which means that you can purchase the book early and receive new chapters as they are being written so that you don’t have […]
After a wonderful time last year, I was able to present yet again this year’s Lucene Revolution conference in Boston. Lucene Revolution is a yearly conference put on by Lucid Imagination, a company focused upon supporting and commercializing the open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies (and integrating them with related technologies). My talk […]
I recently gave a presentation at Lucene Revolution 2011 out in San Francisco. The title of my topic was “Extending Solr: Building a Cloud-like Knowledge Discovery Platform.” Video: Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/treygrainger/extending-solr-building-cloudlike-knowledge-discovery-platform Talk Summary: For CareerBuilder, a 1% deviance in search relevancy can mean millions of missed job opportunities for our users. When CareerBuilder moved to Solr […]
Check out my interview, published today, with Mitch Pronschinske from DZone: The Solr Conversion at CareerBuilder.com: Lower Costs, Greater Agility Questions from the Interview: Jobs are one of the most important things we search for on the web. What are some of the major challenges for search technology on a jobs site? What are some […]
