Welcome to the Wiki page of the course '''Search Engines, WS 2009 / 2010'''. Lecturer: [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|Hannah Bast]]. Tutorials: [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/celikik|Marjan Celikik]]. Course web page: [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/teaching/winter-term-2009-2010/suchmaschinen-vorlesung|click here]].

Here are PDFs of the slides of the lectures so far: [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-1.pdf|Lecture 1]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-2.pdf|Lecture 2]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-3.pdf|Lecture 3]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-4.pdf|Lecture 4]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-5.pdf|Lecture 5]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-6.pdf|Lecture 6]].

Here are .lpd files of the recordings of the lectures so far (except Lecture 2, where we had problems with the microphone): [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-1.lpd|Recording Lecture 1]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-3.lpd|Recording Lecture 3]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-4.lpd|Recording Lecture 4]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-5.lpd|Recording Lecture 5 (no audio)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-6.lpd|Recording Lecture 6 (with audio for a change)]].

Here are PDFs of the exercise sheets so far: [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-1.pdf|Exercise Sheet 1]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-2.pdf|Exercise Sheet 2]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-3.pdf|Exercise Sheet 3]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-4.pdf|Exercise Sheet 4]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-5.pdf|Exercise Sheet 5]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-6.pdf|Exercise Sheet 6]].

Here are your solutions and comments on the previous exercise sheets: [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet1|Solutions and Comments 1]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet2|Solutions and Comments 2]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet3|Solutions and Comments 3]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet4|Solutions and Comments 4]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet5|Solutions and Comments 5]].

= Exercise Sheet 6 =
The recordings of all lectures are now available, see above. Lecture 2 is missing because we had technical problems there. To play the recordings (it's .lpd files) you need the Lecturnity Player. [[http://www.lecturnity.de/de/download/lecturnity-player|You can download the player for free here]].

[[SearchEnginesWS0910/Rules|Here are the rules for the exercises as explained in Lecture 2]].

[[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet6|Here you can upload your solutions for Exercise Sheet 6]].

== Questions or comments below this line, most recent on top please ==

Hi Björn, by ratio I simply mean the quotient, that is, how much bigger the one is then the other. For example, if, for a particular prefix, the total size from (1) is one million, and the size from (2) is ten thousand, then, for that prefix, the ratio between the two is one hundred. '''Hannah 29Nov09 7:48pm'''

Hello, I wonder what's meant with the ratio demanded in exercise 1. If i have n lists with a maximum length of "a" and a total length of "b". Isn't the ratio something like "a:b"? At least that is what I thought. But adding a colon does not seem to be sufficient for a part of the exercise. Sorry for the meaningless question but I don't want to miss points because I'm not sure how to understand the word ratio. '''Björn 11-29 19:39'''

To all: about the selection of the ten prefixes. The idea was that you pick a meaningful variety by hand, that is, such prefixes which one could imagine that one would really type them. The exact selection doesn't really matter, but do avoid extreme cases like a prefix ''yzq'' with one completion and an inverted list of three doc ids. '''Hannah 29Nov09 6:28pm'''

To Marius + all: yes, I am sorry, "cost" was very imprecise here, I actually simply meant the time your code takes. '''Hannah 29Nov09 6:19pm'''

So you say that you mean by "costs" the running time? Or do you understand something else when you say we have to calculate the costs? '''Marius 11/29/09 4:58pm'''

Notice about Problem 2: You should use precise timers when measuring the running times. If your collection is very small and you round up your times, it's easy to get 0 ms when merging or scanning the inverted lists. I recommend using microsecond scale. '''Marjan 29Nov09 16:47'''

To Florian: Yes, you can do anything you want to find those words (as long as you produce the required outputs). '''Marjan 29Nov09 16:44'''

For exercise 1, should we use one of the methods presented in the lecture to find all words in the collection with the prefixes or can we do just anything to get them (though it might not be as efficient)? '''Florian 29Nov09 03:51pm'''

When you scan, please make sure that you do something very simple with the elements, like summing up all doc ids, and then outputting that sum. Otherwise a clever compiler might figure out that it can remove the whole loop, because it is not producing a result that is used anywhere. '''Hannah 28Nov09 11:48pm'''

To Mirko: Yes, scanning means one pass over the elements. '''Marjan 28Nov09 19:19'''

Hi, about exercise2: is by "scanning" meant that one looks at every element exactly once? (=> costs of scanning a list are just the size of the list) '''Mirko 28Nov, 19:12'''