README

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NSF dataset
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Local copy (to be added soon): /cs/sandbox/faculty/tyang/290N/NSFabstract/ contains  3 parts.
Source: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/NSF+Research+Award+Abstracts+1990-2003

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Lucene Readme
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1. download lucene and untar
wget http://apache.osuosl.org/lucene/java/3.6.2/lucene-3.6.2.tgz

2. set classpath 
export CLASSPATH=./PATHTOJAR:./PATHTODEMOJAR
for example,
export CLASSPATH=$HOME/lucene-3.6.2/lucene-core-3.6.2.jar:$HOME/lucene-3.6.2/contrib/demo/lucene-demo-3.6.2.jar  
 
3. index documents
java org.apache.lucene.demo.IndexFiles -docs ./PATHTODOCS

4. search documents
java org.apache.lucene.demo.SearchFiles

You might find this link helpful:
http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_2/queryparsersyntax.html#Boolean operators

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Solr Readme
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Official tutorial:
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/doc-files/tutorial.html

1. download solr and untar
wget http://apache.mirrors.lucidnetworks.net/lucene/solr/3.6.2/apache-solr-3.6.2.tgz 

2. command line: start connection 
cd example
java -jar start.jar

3. open web browser
http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/

4. index documents
cd example/exampledocs
type in command:
java -jar post.jar <list of xml files>
for example,
java -jar post.jar solr.xml monitor.xml

5. type in search word from browser