Introductions

• The API documentation contains  a short and simple code example that shows the basic way to index and search
• The  Getting Started Guide that describes the demos that come with Lucene

Books

•  ”  Apache Lucene 入門 ~Java・オープンソース・全文検索システムの構築” 関口 宏司 ; 技術評論社 ; 2006/05/17 ; ISBN: 4774127809 (Introduction to Apache Lucene: Construction of Java Open Source Full Text Retrieval Systems by Koshi Sekiguti ; Gijutsu-Hyohron Co., Ltd.)
•  ”  Lucene In Action ” by Erik Hatcher, Otis Gospodnetić; Manning Publications; December 2004; ISBN 1932394281 (also available from  Amazon.com )
•  Manfred Hardt, Dr. Fabian Theis: ”  Suchmaschinen entwickeln mit Apache Lucene “; Software & Support Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; September 2004; ISBN 3935042450 (Developing Search Engines with Apache Lucene)

Articles

•  Integrate advanced search functionalities into your apps (by John Ferguson Smart)
  (Published: September 2006 – article)
•  Lecture & Etc : Lucene index file format for Korean (by Jeon Hee-Won)
  (Published: July 2006 – article)
• Cai Ziegler: “Suche nach Suche — Apaches Lucene: eigene Suche und Indizierung”; iX 6/2006, Seite 120; Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, Hannover, Germany
•  Lucene : a tutorial introduction to full-text indexing in Java (by John Ferguson Smart)
  (Published: October 2005 – article)
• Daniel Naber: “Herr der Suche — Eigene Anwendungen mit Volltextsuche erweitern”; c’t 7/2005, Seite 196; Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, Hannover, Germany
•  Behind the Scenes of the SourceForge.net Search System (by Chris Conrad)
  (Last updated: June 2005 – blog entry)
•  Did You Mean: Lucene? (by Tom White)
  (Published: August 2005 – article)
•  Meet Lucene (by Otis Gospodnetić, Eric Hatcher)
  (Published: March 2005 – article)
•  I Love Lucene (by Dion Almaer)
  (Published: January 2005 – article)
•  Unweaving a Tangled Web With HTMLParser and Lucene (by Keld H. Hansen)
  (Last updated: October 2004 – tutorial)
•  Lucene Introduction in Turkish Java Bazlı Arama Motoru – Lusin (by Burak Bayramlı)
  (Last updated: August 2004 – tutorial)
•  Lucene Introduction in Chinese Lucene：基于Java的全文检索引擎简介 (by Che Dong; 作者： 车东)
  (Last updated: May 2004 – tutorial)
•  Lucene In-Memory Text Search (by Philip Isenhour)
  (Last updated: May 2004 – tutorial)
•  The Lucene Search Engine: Adding Search to Your Applications (by Thomas Paul)
  (Published: April 2004 – article)
•  Lucene Tutorial (by Steven J. Owens)
  (Last updated: March 2004 – tutorial)
•  Lucene Introduction in French Exposés Système sur le thème de l’opensource : Analyse de la structure de Lucene. (by Sun Seng TAN)
  (Last updated: February 2004 – tutorial)
•  QueryParser Rules (by Erik Hatcher)
  (Published November 2003 – article)
•  Give your Web site its own search engine using Lucene (by Jeffrey Linwood)
  (Published July 2003 – article)
•  Lucene Intro (by Erik Hatcher)
  (Published: July 2003 – article)
•  Parsing, indexing, and searching XML with Digester and Lucene (by Otis Gospodnetić)
  (Published June 2003 – article)
•  Using Python, Jython, and Lucene to Search Outlook Email (by Jon Udell)
  (Published: May 2003 – article)
•  Advanced Text Indexing with Lucene (by Otis Gospodnetić)
  (Published: March 2003 – article)
•  Introduction to Text Indexing with Apache Jakarta Lucene (by Otis Gospodnetić)
  (Published: January 2003 – article)
• Manfred Hardt: “Suchmaschinen entwickeln mit Java und Lucene – Wo war denn noch gleich … ?”; JavaMagazin 9/2002; Software & Support Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
•  Lucene Mini-Tutorial (by funzel)
  (Last updated: April 2002 – tutorial)
•  The Lucene search engine Powerful flexible and free (by Brian Goetz)
  (Published September 2000 – article)

Papers

•  http://lucene.sourceforge.net/publications.html Doug Cuttings papers from the old Lucene web site

Presentations

•  Full-Text Search with Lucene presented by Yonik Seeley at  ApacheCon Europe 2007 .
•  Advanced Lucene presented by Grant Ingersoll of  CNLP at  ApacheCon Europe 2007 . Covers term vectors, query tips and tricks and Lucene performance tuning related to indexing, searching and document retrieval.
  (Presented May 2007 – PDF slide show)
•  Lucene: Generic Data Indexing presented by Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO,  Atlassian Software Systems at  TSSJS Las Vegas 2007 . Covers how Atlassian use Lucene as a generic indexing framework for indexing and finding arbitrary collections of complex objects.
  (Presented March 2007 – PDF slide show)
•  Advanced Lucene presented by Grant Ingersoll of the  Center for Natural Language Processing at  ApacheCon 2005 . Covers term vectors, span queries, using Lucene in a basic question answering system, and several Lucene case studies from  http://www.cnlp.org . The accompanying  eight="11" width="11"/> CNLP ApacheCon 2005 Information website contains many working examples using term vectors and span queries.
•  Lucene lecture at The University of Pisa (by Doug Cutting)
  (Presented November 2004 – lecture notes)
•  Introducing Lucene (by Erik Hatcher)
  (Presented at OS2003, July 2003 – PDF slide show)
•  The Lucene Search Engine: Inktomi Seminar (by Doug Cutting)
  (Presented June, 2000 – seminar notes)

Corpora

• DMOZ RDF dump –  http://rdf.dmoz.org/
• CMU newsgroups –  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-20/www/data/news20.html
• CMU webpages –  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-20/www/data/
• Reuters –  http://www.daviddlewis.com/resources/testcollections/reuters21578
• Enron emails –  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/

Other

•  Lucene Resources – Articles, Books, FAQs, Forums, Presentations, Wiki.
•  Lucene Search Forum – hosted by  Nabble archiving all Lucene and Nutch mailing lists into a searchable archive/forum. The search is coded using Lucene.