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Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Hi all,
Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr
committer!
Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
search. We look forward to his future contributions.
Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with
a brief bio, Alessandro.
~ David Smiley
Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Kevin Risden <kr...@apache.org>.
Congrats and welcome Alessandro!
Kevin Risden
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:42 AM Munendra S N <sn...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Congratulations Alessandro!
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:02 PM Houston Putman <ho...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Congrats Alessandro!
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:07 AM Tommaso Teofili <
>> tommaso.teofili@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> welcome on board Alessandro, well deserved!
>>> I still remember when we were sitting together in the same room having
>>> fun with Lucene/Solr a few years ago, keep up the good job !
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tommaso
>>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 14:01, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>>>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>>>
>>>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as
>>>> More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for
>>>> years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing
>>>> list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>>>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>>>
>>>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>>>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>>>
>>>> ~ David Smiley
>>>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>>>
>>>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Munendra S N <sn...@gmail.com>.
Congratulations Alessandro!
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:02 PM Houston Putman <ho...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Congrats Alessandro!
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:07 AM Tommaso Teofili <
> tommaso.teofili@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> welcome on board Alessandro, well deserved!
>> I still remember when we were sitting together in the same room having
>> fun with Lucene/Solr a few years ago, keep up the good job !
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tommaso
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 14:01, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>>
>>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as
>>> More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for
>>> years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing
>>> list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>>
>>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>>
>>> ~ David Smiley
>>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>>
>>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Jason Gerlowski <ge...@gmail.com>.
Congrats and welcome Alessandro. Well deserved.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 2:34 PM Tomás Fernández Löbbe
<to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Congrats and welcome Alessandro!
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:34 AM Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Welcome Alessandro!
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 10:32 Houston Putman <ho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Congrats Alessandro!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:07 AM Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> welcome on board Alessandro, well deserved!
>>>> I still remember when we were sitting together in the same room having fun with Lucene/Solr a few years ago, keep up the good job !
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Tommaso
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 14:01, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr committer!
>>>>>
>>>>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>>>>
>>>>> ~ David Smiley
>>>>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
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Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Tomás Fernández Löbbe <to...@gmail.com>.
Congrats and welcome Alessandro!
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:34 AM Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Welcome Alessandro!
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 10:32 Houston Putman <ho...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Congrats Alessandro!
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:07 AM Tommaso Teofili <
>> tommaso.teofili@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> welcome on board Alessandro, well deserved!
>>> I still remember when we were sitting together in the same room having
>>> fun with Lucene/Solr a few years ago, keep up the good job !
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tommaso
>>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 14:01, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>>>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>>>
>>>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as
>>>> More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for
>>>> years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing
>>>> list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>>>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>>>
>>>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>>>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>>>
>>>> ~ David Smiley
>>>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>>>
>>>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>.
Welcome Alessandro!
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 10:32 Houston Putman <ho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats Alessandro!
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:07 AM Tommaso Teofili <
> tommaso.teofili@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> welcome on board Alessandro, well deserved!
>> I still remember when we were sitting together in the same room having
>> fun with Lucene/Solr a few years ago, keep up the good job !
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tommaso
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 14:01, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>>
>>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as
>>> More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for
>>> years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing
>>> list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>>
>>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>>
>>> ~ David Smiley
>>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>>
>>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Houston Putman <ho...@gmail.com>.
Congrats Alessandro!
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:07 AM Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> welcome on board Alessandro, well deserved!
> I still remember when we were sitting together in the same room having fun
> with Lucene/Solr a few years ago, keep up the good job !
>
> Regards,
> Tommaso
>
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 14:01, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>
>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
>> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
>> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
>> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>
>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>
>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com>.
welcome on board Alessandro, well deserved!
I still remember when we were sitting together in the same room having fun
with Lucene/Solr a few years ago, keep up the good job !
Regards,
Tommaso
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 14:01, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr
> committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with
> a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Trey Grainger <so...@gmail.com>.
Congrats, Alessandro!
-Trey
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:36 AM Ignacio Vera <iv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome Alessandro!
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 3:21 PM Namgyu Kim <kn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Congrats and welcome! Alessandro :D
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:10 PM Michael Sokolov <ms...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Welcome Alessandro!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:25 PM Alessandro Benedetti <
>>> a.benedetti@sease.io> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!
>>>> I already know most of you but for all the others here's my brief bio :)
>>>>
>>>> I am Italian (possibly the only other italian in addition to Tommaso)
>>>> and I have been living in the UK for the last 7 years.
>>>> I am currently based in London.
>>>> I started working with Apache Solr back in 2010 (and a few months later
>>>> with Apache Lucene), my first project was a search API that translated the
>>>> Verity query language to Lucene syntax, at the time I was a junior software
>>>> engineer with a background in Information Retrieval research at Roma3
>>>> university.
>>>> Since then I have explored a lot of different use cases for Apache
>>>> Lucene/Solr and I spent more and more time studying and working with the
>>>> internals, across various companies and positions.
>>>> My favourite projects in my career have been the design and
>>>> implementation of a Semantic Search engine called Sensify (when I was
>>>> working in a small and cohesive R&D team in Zaizi, with spanish friends and
>>>> colleagues from Seville), the Apache Solr Learning To Rank plugin from
>>>> Bloomberg (and integrations/applications) and the Rated Ranking Evaluator
>>>> project (an Open Source library for Search Quality Evaluation we
>>>> contributed back to the community).
>>>> In 2016 I founded my own company, Sease where we try to build a bridge
>>>> between Academia and the industry through Open Source software in the
>>>> domain of Information Retrieval.
>>>>
>>>> As David mentioned my main areas of contribution in Apache Lucene/Solr
>>>> have been the More Like This, the Learning To Rank plugin, Synonyms
>>>> expansion and the Suggester component.
>>>> I have a lot of ideas in my to do list, so stay tuned, we'll have a lot
>>>> to discuss and innovate !
>>>>
>>>> It is a pleasure to join this group and I am sure we'll do great things
>>>> together :)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------
>>>> Alessandro Benedetti
>>>> Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director
>>>> www.sease.io
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 13:00, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>>>>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>>>>
>>>>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as
>>>>> More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for
>>>>> years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing
>>>>> list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>>>>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>>>>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>>>>
>>>>> ~ David Smiley
>>>>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>>>>
>>>>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Ignacio Vera <iv...@gmail.com>.
Welcome Alessandro!
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 3:21 PM Namgyu Kim <kn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats and welcome! Alessandro :D
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:10 PM Michael Sokolov <ms...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Welcome Alessandro!
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:25 PM Alessandro Benedetti <
>> a.benedetti@sease.io> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!
>>> I already know most of you but for all the others here's my brief bio :)
>>>
>>> I am Italian (possibly the only other italian in addition to Tommaso)
>>> and I have been living in the UK for the last 7 years.
>>> I am currently based in London.
>>> I started working with Apache Solr back in 2010 (and a few months later
>>> with Apache Lucene), my first project was a search API that translated the
>>> Verity query language to Lucene syntax, at the time I was a junior software
>>> engineer with a background in Information Retrieval research at Roma3
>>> university.
>>> Since then I have explored a lot of different use cases for Apache
>>> Lucene/Solr and I spent more and more time studying and working with the
>>> internals, across various companies and positions.
>>> My favourite projects in my career have been the design and
>>> implementation of a Semantic Search engine called Sensify (when I was
>>> working in a small and cohesive R&D team in Zaizi, with spanish friends and
>>> colleagues from Seville), the Apache Solr Learning To Rank plugin from
>>> Bloomberg (and integrations/applications) and the Rated Ranking Evaluator
>>> project (an Open Source library for Search Quality Evaluation we
>>> contributed back to the community).
>>> In 2016 I founded my own company, Sease where we try to build a bridge
>>> between Academia and the industry through Open Source software in the
>>> domain of Information Retrieval.
>>>
>>> As David mentioned my main areas of contribution in Apache Lucene/Solr
>>> have been the More Like This, the Learning To Rank plugin, Synonyms
>>> expansion and the Suggester component.
>>> I have a lot of ideas in my to do list, so stay tuned, we'll have a lot
>>> to discuss and innovate !
>>>
>>> It is a pleasure to join this group and I am sure we'll do great things
>>> together :)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------
>>> Alessandro Benedetti
>>> Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director
>>> www.sease.io
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 13:00, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>>>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>>>
>>>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as
>>>> More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for
>>>> years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing
>>>> list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>>>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>>>
>>>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>>>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>>>
>>>> ~ David Smiley
>>>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>>>
>>>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Namgyu Kim <kn...@gmail.com>.
Congrats and welcome! Alessandro :D
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:10 PM Michael Sokolov <ms...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome Alessandro!
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:25 PM Alessandro Benedetti <a....@sease.io>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!
>> I already know most of you but for all the others here's my brief bio :)
>>
>> I am Italian (possibly the only other italian in addition to Tommaso) and
>> I have been living in the UK for the last 7 years.
>> I am currently based in London.
>> I started working with Apache Solr back in 2010 (and a few months later
>> with Apache Lucene), my first project was a search API that translated the
>> Verity query language to Lucene syntax, at the time I was a junior software
>> engineer with a background in Information Retrieval research at Roma3
>> university.
>> Since then I have explored a lot of different use cases for Apache
>> Lucene/Solr and I spent more and more time studying and working with the
>> internals, across various companies and positions.
>> My favourite projects in my career have been the design and
>> implementation of a Semantic Search engine called Sensify (when I was
>> working in a small and cohesive R&D team in Zaizi, with spanish friends and
>> colleagues from Seville), the Apache Solr Learning To Rank plugin from
>> Bloomberg (and integrations/applications) and the Rated Ranking Evaluator
>> project (an Open Source library for Search Quality Evaluation we
>> contributed back to the community).
>> In 2016 I founded my own company, Sease where we try to build a bridge
>> between Academia and the industry through Open Source software in the
>> domain of Information Retrieval.
>>
>> As David mentioned my main areas of contribution in Apache Lucene/Solr
>> have been the More Like This, the Learning To Rank plugin, Synonyms
>> expansion and the Suggester component.
>> I have a lot of ideas in my to do list, so stay tuned, we'll have a lot
>> to discuss and innovate !
>>
>> It is a pleasure to join this group and I am sure we'll do great things
>> together :)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> --------------------------
>> Alessandro Benedetti
>> Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director
>> www.sease.io
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 13:00, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>>
>>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as
>>> More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for
>>> years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing
>>> list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>>
>>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>>
>>> ~ David Smiley
>>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>>
>>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Michael Sokolov <ms...@gmail.com>.
Welcome Alessandro!
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:25 PM Alessandro Benedetti <a....@sease.io>
wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!
> I already know most of you but for all the others here's my brief bio :)
>
> I am Italian (possibly the only other italian in addition to Tommaso) and
> I have been living in the UK for the last 7 years.
> I am currently based in London.
> I started working with Apache Solr back in 2010 (and a few months later
> with Apache Lucene), my first project was a search API that translated the
> Verity query language to Lucene syntax, at the time I was a junior software
> engineer with a background in Information Retrieval research at Roma3
> university.
> Since then I have explored a lot of different use cases for Apache
> Lucene/Solr and I spent more and more time studying and working with the
> internals, across various companies and positions.
> My favourite projects in my career have been the design and implementation
> of a Semantic Search engine called Sensify (when I was working in a small
> and cohesive R&D team in Zaizi, with spanish friends and colleagues from
> Seville), the Apache Solr Learning To Rank plugin from Bloomberg (and
> integrations/applications) and the Rated Ranking Evaluator project (an Open
> Source library for Search Quality Evaluation we contributed back to the
> community).
> In 2016 I founded my own company, Sease where we try to build a bridge
> between Academia and the industry through Open Source software in the
> domain of Information Retrieval.
>
> As David mentioned my main areas of contribution in Apache Lucene/Solr
> have been the More Like This, the Learning To Rank plugin, Synonyms
> expansion and the Suggester component.
> I have a lot of ideas in my to do list, so stay tuned, we'll have a lot to
> discuss and innovate !
>
> It is a pleasure to join this group and I am sure we'll do great things
> together :)
>
> Cheers
>
>
> --------------------------
> Alessandro Benedetti
> Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director
> www.sease.io
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 13:00, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>
>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
>> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
>> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
>> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>
>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>
>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Alessandro Benedetti <a....@sease.io>.
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!
I already know most of you but for all the others here's my brief bio :)
I am Italian (possibly the only other italian in addition to Tommaso) and I
have been living in the UK for the last 7 years.
I am currently based in London.
I started working with Apache Solr back in 2010 (and a few months later
with Apache Lucene), my first project was a search API that translated the
Verity query language to Lucene syntax, at the time I was a junior software
engineer with a background in Information Retrieval research at Roma3
university.
Since then I have explored a lot of different use cases for Apache
Lucene/Solr and I spent more and more time studying and working with the
internals, across various companies and positions.
My favourite projects in my career have been the design and implementation
of a Semantic Search engine called Sensify (when I was working in a small
and cohesive R&D team in Zaizi, with spanish friends and colleagues from
Seville), the Apache Solr Learning To Rank plugin from Bloomberg (and
integrations/applications) and the Rated Ranking Evaluator project (an Open
Source library for Search Quality Evaluation we contributed back to the
community).
In 2016 I founded my own company, Sease where we try to build a bridge
between Academia and the industry through Open Source software in the
domain of Information Retrieval.
As David mentioned my main areas of contribution in Apache Lucene/Solr have
been the More Like This, the Learning To Rank plugin, Synonyms expansion
and the Suggester component.
I have a lot of ideas in my to do list, so stay tuned, we'll have a lot to
discuss and innovate !
It is a pleasure to join this group and I am sure we'll do great things
together :)
Cheers
--------------------------
Alessandro Benedetti
Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director
www.sease.io
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 13:00, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr
> committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with
> a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Dawid Weiss <da...@gmail.com>.
Benvenuto e complimenti, Alessandro. Saluti dalla Polonia!
Dawid
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 2:01 PM David Smiley <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
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Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Steve Rowe <sa...@gmail.com>.
Congrats and welcome Alessandro!
--
Steve
> On Mar 18, 2020, at 9:00 AM, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Shalin Shekhar Mangar <sh...@gmail.com>.
Congratulations and welcome Alessandro!
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:31 PM David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr
> committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with
> a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
--
Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Yonik Seeley <ys...@gmail.com>.
Congrats Alessandro!
-Yonik
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:01 AM David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr
> committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with
> a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Nhat Nguyen <nh...@elastic.co.INVALID>.
Congratulations and welcome Alessandro!
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:34 AM Ishan Chattopadhyaya <
ichattopadhyaya@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations Alessandro!
>
> On Wed, 18 Mar, 2020, 6:43 pm Karl Wright, <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Welcome, Alessandro!
>> Karl
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:01 AM David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>>
>>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as
>>> More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for
>>> years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing
>>> list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>>
>>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>>
>>> ~ David Smiley
>>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>>
>>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Ishan Chattopadhyaya <ic...@gmail.com>.
Congratulations Alessandro!
On Wed, 18 Mar, 2020, 6:43 pm Karl Wright, <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome, Alessandro!
> Karl
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:01 AM David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest
>> Lucene/Solr committer!
>>
>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
>> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
>> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
>> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
>> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>
>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself
>> with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>
>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Karl Wright <da...@gmail.com>.
Welcome, Alessandro!
Karl
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:01 AM David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr
> committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with
> a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>.
Follow the instructions here: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/community.html#mailing-lists-irc. You must use the _exact_ same e-mail as you used to subscribe.
If the initial try doesn't work and following the suggestions at the "problems" link doesn't work for you, let us know. But note you need to show us the _entire_ return header to allow anyone to diagnose the problem.
Best,
Erick
> On Mar 22, 2020, at 12:53 PM, Robert Zotter <ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Unsubcribe
>
>> On Mar 18, 2020, at 6:00 AM, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr committer!
>>
>> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>>
>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>>
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
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Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Robert Zotter <ro...@gmail.com>.
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> On Mar 18, 2020, at 6:00 AM, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Alan Woodward <ro...@gmail.com>.
Congratulations and welcome, Alessandro! More committers for the London meet-up, whenever they start again :)
> On 18 Mar 2020, at 13:00, David Smiley <david.w.smiley@gmail.com <ma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Joel Bernstein <jo...@gmail.com>.
Welcome Alessandro!
Joel Bernstein
http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:25 AM Erik Hatcher <er...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I’m glad you’ve been here, Alessandro! Congrats!
>
> Erik
>
> On Mar 18, 2020, at 09:01, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr
> committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with
> a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
>
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Erik Hatcher <er...@gmail.com>.
I’m glad you’ve been here, Alessandro! Congrats!
Erik
> On Mar 18, 2020, at 09:01, David Smiley <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Anshum Gupta <an...@anshumgupta.net>.
Congrats and welcome, Alessandro.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:01 AM David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr
> committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More
> Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years.
> Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list
> and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about
> search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with
> a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
--
Anshum Gupta
Re: Welcome Alessandro Benedetti as a Lucene/Solr committer
Posted by Jan Høydahl <ja...@cominvent.com>.
Welcome Alessandro!
Jan
> 18. mar. 2020 kl. 14:00 skrev David Smiley <da...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Alessandro Benedetti as the latest Lucene/Solr committer!
>
> Alessandro has been contributing to Lucene and Solr in areas such as More Like This, Synonym boosting, and Suggesters, and other areas for years. Furthermore he's been a help to many users on the solr-user mailing list and has helped others through his blog posts and presentations about search. We look forward to his future contributions.
>
> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with a brief bio, Alessandro.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley>