A clustering engine for Solr based on Latent Semantic Analysis. The engine constructs a term frequency matrix which it stores in memory. When requests for clustering documents are made, the term document matrix is constructed for the documents in the query result and decomposed using Singular Value Decomposition. The document vectors are then reconstructed based on a reduced rank parameter to get rid of noise. These reconstructed document vectors are clustered by comparing the cosine similarity distance of each individual document to the first n principal components.
Decomposition is performed using the DistributedLanczosSolver from Apache Mahout on a Hadoop cluster. After decomposition of the term-document matrix, the reduced rank document vectors are clusters using k-means clustering also from Apache Mahout or a local hierarchical clustering method. The number of clusters must be supplied if using the kmeans algorithm. A dendrogram is produced as output from the hierarchical clustering. The dendrogram is suitable as input to the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit.
Development goals include determining the optimal number of clusters, optimizing the reduced rank, etc.
lsa4solr depends on the 3.1 development version of Solr and the 1.2 development version of Clojure. In order to build lsa4solr, you will need to build the appropriate versions of Solr and Clojure, generate the maven artifacts, and install them in your local maven repository. Then
lein deps lein jar
Due to some Clojure classloader requirements, you will need to install the lsa4solr jar and its dependencies into the Solr webapp/WEB-INF/lib directory rather than using the solrconfig.xml file to configure the path to the lsa4solr dependencies. The dependencies that need to be in the System classloader include:
arpack-combo-0.1.jar
clojure-1.2.0.jar
clojure-contrib-1.2.0-master-20100122.191106-1.jar
apache-solr-clustering-3.1-dev.jar
parallelcolt-0.7.2.jar
lsa4solr.jar
netlib-java-0.9.1.jar
hadoop-core-0.20.2.jar
mahout-collections-0.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
mahout-core-0.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
mahout-math-0.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
commons-cli-2.0-mahout.jar
uncommons-maths-1.2.jar
Add the following to your solrconfig.xml
<searchComponent
name="lsa4solr"
enable="${solr.clustering.enabled:false}"
class="org.apache.solr.handler.clustering.ClusteringComponent" >
<lst name="engine">
<str name="classname">lsa4solr.cluster.LSAClusteringEngine</str>
<str name="name">lsa4solr</str>
<str name="narrative-field">Summary</str>
<str name="id-field">Summary</str>
</lst>
</searchComponent>
<requestHandler name="/lsa4solr"
enable="${solr.clustering.enabled:false}"
class="solr.SearchHandler">
<lst name="defaults">
<bool name="clustering">true</bool>
<str name="clustering.engine">lsa4solr</str>
<bool name="clustering.results">true</bool>
</lst>
<arr name="last-components">
<str>lsa4solr</str>
</arr>
</requestHandler>
Configure the narrative-field parameter to be the text field of the schema you are working with and the id-field parameter to be the unique field that will be returned.
You will need to tweak the Solr filters on the narrative field in order to get the best results. I have been using the following set of filters to get decent results:
<fieldType name="text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
<analyzer type="index">
<tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" />
<filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory"
generateWordParts="0"
generateNumberParts="0"
catenateWords="1"
catenateNumbers="1"
catenateAll="0"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory" language="English" protected="protwords.txt"/>
<filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/>
</analyzer>
In order to use lsa4solr with Hadoop, make sure that the mahout-math-0.4.jar is in the Hadoop lib directory. This is a dependency of the mahout-core-0.4.jar which contains the distributed job. Put the core-site.xml and mapred-site.xml files from the resources directory into Solr's webapp/WEB-INF/classes directory and configure them to point to your Hadoop setup.
Start Solr with the -Dsolr.clustering.enabled=true option. Once the server has started, cluster your documents using an URL like
http://localhost:8983/solr/lsa4solr?nclusters=2&q=Summary:.*&rows=100&k=10&algorithm=kmeans
where
algorithm - the algorithm to use for clustering (hierarchical or kmeans)
k - the rank of the reduced SVD matrix
nclusters - the number of clusters to group the documents into (kmeans only)
q - the standard Solr query parameter
rows - the standard Solr rows parameter
The cluster information will be at the bottom of the response.
On the Downloads page, there is a Usenet dataset which can be found here Import some documents from two or more of the newsgroups into your Solr instance and access the lsa4solr URL.
You can also use the cluster algorithm directly from the REPL
lein swank
user> (in-ns 'lsa4solr.cluster)
#<Namespace lsa4solr.cluster>
lsa4solr.cluster> (def reader (org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader/open (org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory/open (new java.io.File "/path/to/solr/data/index"))))
#'lsa4solr.cluster/reader
lsa4solr.cluster> (def initial-terms (init-term-freq-doc reader "Summary"))
#'lsa4solr.cluster/initial-terms
lsa4solr.cluster> (def searcher (new org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher reader))
#'lsa4solr.cluster/searcher
lsa4solr.cluster> (def queryparser
(new org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser
(org.apache.lucene.util.Version/LUCENE_30)
"Summary"
(new org.apache.lucene.analysis.SimpleAnalyzer)))
#'lsa4solr.cluster/queryparser
lsa4solr.cluster> (def result (. searcher search (. queryparser parse "Summary:br*") (. reader maxDoc)))
#'lsa4solr.cluster/result
lsa4solr.cluster> (def docids (map #(. %1 doc) (. result scoreDocs)))
#'lsa4solr.cluster/docids
lsa4solr.cluster> (def docslice (new org.apache.solr.search.DocSlice 0 (count docids) (int-array docids) (float-array (repeat (count docids) 1)) (count docids) 1))
#'lsa4solr.cluster/docslice
lsa4solr.cluster> (def kmeans-clst (cluster-kmeans-docs reader initial-terms 50 2 "Summary" "id"))
lsa4solr.cluster> (def hierarchical-clst (cluster-hierarchical-docs reader initial-terms 50 "Summary" "id"))