Lecture 1, Thursday October 22, 2009
Part 1: Introduction (30 minutes)
Deutsch or English. Short introduction of myself. Demo of CompleteSearch, explain components. Difference between web search and search in homogenous collections. Comment on style of this course: exercises, Wiki, etc. Talk about block project at the end.
Part 2: Parsing / Tokenization (10 minutes)
Give examples, where this is not trivial. Chinese. UTF8. Compound words. Stemming.
Part 3: Inverted Index (30 minutes)
Why Indexing. Grep. Inverted Index. Building it. Querying it. List intersection. Quick analysis of index construction time and space and of query time.
Part 4: Exercises (20 minutes)
Go through exercises one by one. Explain about Wiki. Will be used throughout semester. For uploading exercises. For asking questions. For collaboration.