Introduction to Information Retrieval
Indexing data: concepts, forms
Boolean Information Retrieval Model
Sorted search
vector information search Model
Presentation of the library Apache Lucene
Apache Solr search engine Discover
Comparison with other engines ( ElasticSearch)
Installation of Solr
Solr Core, configuration
Document schema and text analysis
Communication modes
Data Import Handler (DIH)
Solr Cell for file
indexing Indexing of rich documents (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.) with Tika
Indexer a site with Nutch

Workshop: Architecture and installation of Solr – data and file indexing

Search parameters
Queries: basic syntax, parser
Dismax query parser Geolocation
management: points, precision, shapes
Influence the relevance of results Highlight and MoreLikeThis
faceted
search
Dismax and eDismax
Collapsing
Boost
Query functions
Geographic search Cache
management

Workshop: Writing queries – Analyzing queries and improving relevance

Solr in a high availability (HA) environment
Setting up a Solr cluster: Replication, Cloud
Performance evaluation: SolrMeter
Management of hardware and network resources
Tuning and monitoring
Backup and restore

Workshop: implementation of an HA architecture with Solr