About the Author

Grant Ingersoll

is an independent consultant developing search and natural language processing tools. He has worked on a number of text processing applications involving information retrieval, question answering, clustering, summarization, and categorization. Grant is a committer, as well as a speaker and trainer, on the Apache Lucene Java project and a co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine-learning project.

Thomas Morton writes software and performs research in the area of text processing and machine learning. He has been the primary developer and maintainer of the OpenNLP text processing project and Maximum Entropy machine learning project for the last 5 years. Currently, he works as a software architect for Comcast Interactive Media in Philadelphia.

Drew Farris is a professional software developer and technology consultant whose interests focus on large scale analytics, distributed computing and machine learning. He has contributed to a number of open source projects including Apache Mahout, Lucene and Solr, and holds a master's degree in Information Resource Management from Syracuse University's iSchool and a B.F.A in Computer Graphics.