This mahout example: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Quick+tour+of+text+analysis+using+the+Mahout+command+line assumes you know how to use maven to run apache lucene on some text.. which I didn't. This gist is a pom.xml file that will allow you to run the indicated maven command on the reuters text dataset, cobbled together fr…

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>dataproj.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>running-lucene-with-maven</artifactId>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <version>0.1</version>
    <profiles>
        <!-- Add profile configuration here -->
    </profiles>
    <dependencies>
        <!-- Add dependencies here -->
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
          <artifactId>lucene-core</artifactId>
          <version>4.6.0</version>
          <type>jar</type>
          <optional>false</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
          <artifactId>lucene-benchmark</artifactId>
          <version>4.6.0</version>
          <type>jar</type>
          <optional>false</optional>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <finalName>lucene-reuters</finalName>
        <!-- Add filter configuration here -->
        <!-- Add resources configuration here -->
        <plugins>
          <!-- Add plugin configuration here -->
          <plugin>
          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
          <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
            <executable>java</executable>
            <arguments>
              <argument>-Dmyproperty=myvalue</argument>
              <argument>-classpath</argument>
              <!-- automatically creates the classpath using all project dependencies,
                   also adding the project build directory -->
              <classpath/>
              <argument>com.example.Main</argument>
              ...
            </arguments>
          </configuration>
          </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>