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Acknowledgments

A long time coming, this book represents the labor of many people whom we would like to gratefully acknowledge. Thanks to all the following:

• The users and developers of Apache Solr, Lucene, Mahout, OpenNLP, and other tools used throughout this book
• Manning Publications, for sticking with us, especially Douglas Pundick, Karen Tegtmeyer, and Marjan Bace
• Jeff Bleiel, our development editor, for nudging us along despite our crazy schedules, for always having good feedback, and for turning developers into authors
• Our reviewers, for the questions, comments, and criticisms that make this book better: Adam Tacy, Amos Bannister, Clint Howarth, Costantino Cerbo, Dawid Weiss, Denis Kurilenko, Doug Warren, Frank Jania, Gann Bierner, ...