Resources

Introductions

• The API documentation contains a short and simple code example that shows the basic way to index and search

• The Getting Started Guide that describes the demos that come with Lucene

Books

• " Building Search Applications: Lucene, LingPipe, and Gate" by Manu Konchady; Mustru Publishing; June 2008; ISBN 978-0615204253

• " Apache Lucene 入門 ~Java・オープンソース・全文検索システムの構築" 関口 宏司 ; 技術評論社 ; 2006/05/17 ; ISBN: 4774127809 (Introduction to Apache Lucene: Construction of Java Open Source Full Text Retrieval Systems by Koshi Sekiguti ; Gijutsu-Hyohron Co., Ltd.)

• " Lucene In Action" by Erik Hatcher, Otis Gospodnetić; Manning Publications; December 2004; ISBN 1932394281 (also available from Amazon.com)

• Manfred Hardt, Dr. Fabian Theis: " Suchmaschinen entwickeln mit Apache Lucene"; Software & Support Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; September 2004; ISBN 3935042450 (Developing Search Engines with Apache Lucene)

Articles

• How MoreLikeThis Works in Lucene (by Aaron Johnson)
  (Last updated: March 2008 - blog entry)

• Lucene Wikipedia indexer (by Marco Schmidt)
  (Last updated: November 2007 - tutorial)

• Running Lucene inside your Oracle JVM (by Marcelo Ochoa)
  (Last updated: September 2007 - blog entry)

• Using the Lucene Query Parser Without Lucene (by Marcin Maciukiewicz and Daniel Owsiański)
  (Published: May 2007 - article)

• Integrate advanced search functionalities into your apps (by John Ferguson Smart)
  (Published: September 2006 - article)

• Beef up Web search applications with Lucene (by Deng Peng Zhou)
  (Published: August 2006 - article)

• Lecture & Etc : Lucene index file format for Korean (by Jeon Hee-Won)
  (Published: July 2006 - article)

• Cai Ziegler: "Suche nach Suche -- Apaches Lucene: eigene Suche und Indizierung"; iX 6/2006, Seite 120; Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, Hannover, Germany

• Delve inside the Lucene indexing mechanism (by Deng Peng Zhou)
  (Published: June 2006 - article)

• Using Lucene to Search Java Source Code (by Renuka Sindhgatta)
  (Published: January 2006 - article)

• Lucene : a tutorial introduction to full-text indexing in Java (by John Ferguson Smart)
  (Published: October 2005 - article)

• Daniel Naber: "Herr der Suche -- Eigene Anwendungen mit Volltextsuche erweitern"; c't 7/2005, Seite 196; Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, Hannover, Germany

• Behind the Scenes of the SourceForge.net Search System (by Chris Conrad)
  (Last updated: June 2005 - blog entry)

• Did You Mean: Lucene? (by Tom White)
  (Published: August 2005 - article)

• Meet Lucene (by Otis Gospodnetić, Eric Hatcher)
  (Published: March 2005 - article)

• I Love Lucene (by Dion Almaer)
  (Published: January 2005 - article)

• Unweaving a Tangled Web With HTMLParser and Lucene (by Keld H. Hansen)
  (Last updated: October 2004 - tutorial)

• Lucene Introduction in Turkish Java Bazlı Arama Motoru - Lusin (by Burak Bayramlı)
  (Last updated: August 2004 - tutorial)

• Lucene Introduction in Chinese Lucene：基于Java的全文检索引擎简介 (by Che Dong; 作者： 车东)
  (Last updated: May 2004 - tutorial)

• Lucene In-Memory Text Search (by Philip Isenhour)
  (Last updated: May 2004 - tutorial)

• The Lucene Search Engine: Adding Search to Your Applications (by Thomas Paul)
  (Published: April 2004 - article)

• Lucene Tutorial (by Steven J. Owens)
  (Last updated: March 2004 - tutorial)

• Lucene Introduction in French Exposés Système sur le thème de l'opensource : Analyse de la structure de Lucene. (by Sun Seng TAN)
  (Last updated: February 2004 - tutorial)

• QueryParser Rules (by Erik Hatcher)
  (Published November 2003 - article)

• Give your Web site its own search engine using Lucene (by Jeffrey Linwood)
  (Published July 2003 - article)

• Lucene Intro (by Erik Hatcher)
  (Published: July 2003 - article)

• Parsing, indexing, and searching XML with Digester and Lucene (by Otis Gospodnetić)
  (Published June 2003 - article)

• Using Python, Jython, and Lucene to Search Outlook Email (by Jon Udell)
  (Published: May 2003 - article)

• Advanced Text Indexing with Lucene (by Otis Gospodnetić)
  (Published: March 2003 - article)

• Introduction to Text Indexing with Apache Jakarta Lucene (by Otis Gospodnetić)
  (Published: January 2003 - article)

• Manfred Hardt: "Suchmaschinen entwickeln mit Java und Lucene - Wo war denn noch gleich ... ?"; JavaMagazin 9/2002; Software & Support Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

• Lucene Mini-Tutorial (by funzel)
  (Last updated: April 2002 - tutorial)

• The Lucene search engine Powerful flexible and free (by Brian Goetz)
  (Published September 2000 - article)

Papers

• http://lucene.sourceforge.net/publications.html Doug Cuttings papers from the old Lucene web site

Presentations

• Advanced Indexing Techniques with Apache Lucene - Payloads presented by Michael Busch at ApacheCon U.S. 2007
  (Presented November 2007 - PDF slide show)

• Full-Text Search with Lucene presented by Yonik Seeley at ApacheCon Europe 2007.
  (Presented May 2007 - PDF slide show)

• Advanced Lucene presented by Grant Ingersoll of CNLP at ApacheCon Europe 2007. Covers term vectors, query tips and tricks and Lucene performance tuning related to indexing, searching and document retrieval.
  (Presented May 2007 - PDF slide show)

• Lucene: Generic Data Indexing presented by Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO, Atlassian Software Systems at TSSJS Las Vegas 2007. Covers how Atlassian use Lucene as a generic indexing framework for indexing and finding arbitrary collections of complex objects.
  (Presented March 2007 - PDF slide show)

• Advanced Lucene presented by Grant Ingersoll of the Center for Natural Language Processing at ApacheCon 2005. Covers term vectors, span queries, using Lucene in a basic question answering system, and several Lucene case studies from http://www.cnlp.org. The accompanying CNLP ApacheCon 2005 Information website contains many working examples using term vectors and span queries.

• Lucene lecture at The University of Pisa (by Doug Cutting)
  (Presented November 2004 - lecture notes)

• Introducing Lucene (by Erik Hatcher)
  (Presented at OS2003, July 2003 - PDF slide show)

• The Lucene Search Engine: Inktomi Seminar (by Doug Cutting)
  (Presented June, 2000 - seminar notes)

Corpora

• DMOZ RDF dump - http://rdf.dmoz.org/

• CMU newsgroups - http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-20/www/data/news20.html

• CMU webpages - http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-20/www/data/

• Reuters - http://www.daviddlewis.com/resources/testcollections/reuters21578

• Enron emails - http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/

• JRC-ACQUIS Multilingual Parallel Corpus - http://wt.jrc.it/lt/Acquis/

Other

• Lucene Resources - Articles, Books, FAQs, Forums, Presentations, Wiki.

• Lucene Search Forum - hosted by Nabble archiving all Lucene and Nutch mailing lists into a searchable archive/forum. The search is coded using Lucene.

• LuceneTutorial.com - Tips and tricks, sample applications, code samples, best practices.