Fabian Kostadinov

Introduction to Lucene 7 OpenNLP - Part 3

Now that we can do searching on indexed part-of-speech tags what’s still missing is a way to introduce an order of search terms. Remember: All POS tags in our query are simply ORed together. So, how an we achieve this?

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Introduction to Lucene 7 OpenNLP - Part 2

In my previous post I promised I’d describe how to perform searches on indexed part-of-speech data with Lucene 7 and OpenNLP. Let’s have a look. (Thanks to Koji on this one!)

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Introduction to Lucene 7 OpenNLP - Part 1

I’ve carried the idea to use OpenNLP to do part-of-speech tagging and index the POS tags with Lucene around with me for quite some time. Turns out Lucene 7 comes shipped with support for OpenNLP. Of course I had to try it out.

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Rhizomes as transistors

There is a natural similarity between a rhizome’s relation and how modern transistors work. As it turns out, we could actually build a rhizome (with limitations) using transistors. Have a look at the following example.

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Yes, but I'm a software engineer...

Being a software engineer is not an excuse to complain about your data science colleagues. You don’t have to become an expert in machine-learning or statistical analysis, but it’s actually a lot of fun to dive a little deeper into some of these topics and learn more about, let’s say, categorisation algorithms. And it even looks sexy in your CV.

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