Getting Started --------------- To start using Solr UIMA Metadata Extraction Library you should go through the following configuration steps: 1. copy generated solr-uima jar and its libs (under contrib/uima/lib) inside a Solr libraries directory. or set tags in solrconfig.xml appropriately to point those jar files. 2. modify your schema.xml adding the fields you want to be hold metadata specifying proper values for type, indexed, stored and multiValued options: for example you could specify the following 3. modify your solrconfig.xml adding the following snippet: VALID_ALCHEMYAPI_KEY VALID_ALCHEMYAPI_KEY VALID_ALCHEMYAPI_KEY VALID_ALCHEMYAPI_KEY VALID_ALCHEMYAPI_KEY VALID_OPENCALAIS_KEY /org/apache/uima/desc/OverridingParamsExtServicesAE.xml false text org.apache.uima.alchemy.ts.concept.ConceptFS text concept org.apache.uima.alchemy.ts.language.LanguageFS language language org.apache.uima.SentenceAnnotation coveredText sentence where VALID_ALCHEMYAPI_KEY is your AlchemyAPI Access Key. You need to register AlchemyAPI Access key to exploit the AlchemyAPI services: http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/register.html where VALID_OPENCALAIS_KEY is your Calais Service Key. You need to register Calais Service key to exploit the Calais services: http://www.opencalais.com/apikey the analysisEngine must contain an AE descriptor inside the specified path in the classpath the analyzeFields must contain the input fields that need to be analyzed by UIMA, if merge=true then their content will be merged and analyzed only once field mapping describes which features of which types should go in a field 4. in your solrconfig.xml replace the existing default ( uima Once you're done with the configuration you can index documents which will be automatically enriched with the specified fields