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== Documentation (users) == | #acl All:read |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/Installation Installation Guide] | = CompleteSearch = |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/IndexBuilding Index Building: Tools, Formats, etc.] | [[MpiiWiki|Old Wiki from the MPII]] (lots of detailed / internal information) |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/DocumentFormats Document Formats: .docs, .words, .vocabulary, etc.] | == Quick Intro == |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/CharacterEncoding UTF-8 support for PHP (php_mbstring extension)] | Follow these steps to checkout the !CompleteSearch code from our SVN, build it, build an index, run a server on that index, and ask queries to that server via HTTP. Don't be afraid, it's easy. If you have questions, send an email to Hannah Bast <bast@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>. |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/Php Problems with PHP] | === 0. Get source code === |
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{{{ svn checkout http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/svn/completesearch/codebase Username: [ask us] Password: [ask us] }}} |
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== Documentation (developers) == | === 1. Compile === |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/SourceCodeOverview Source code overview] | {{{ make all }}} |
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[http://search.mpi-inf.mpg.de/ir-www/doc Documentation produced by Doxygen] | This will build three binaries: |
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[wiki:Self:CodingConventions Coding Conventions] and [wiki:Self:completesearch/DesignConventions OO and C++ Design Conventions] | * buildIndex * buildDocsDB * startCompletionServer |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/Debugging Debugging HowTo] | If you call any of these binaries without parameters you will get usage info with all the available options. |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/GNUBuildSystem Building with autoconf/automake] and [wiki:Self:completesearch/CMakeBuildSystem Building with CMake] | === 2. Input (to be produced by a suitable parser) === |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/MinGW Compiling under MinGW] | Ínput 1: a file ''<base-name>.words'', with lines of the form |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/ExcerptGenerator Excerpt Generator requirements] | {{{ <word><TAB><doc id><TAB><score><TAB><position> }}} |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/ExcerptGenerator/ThesisTopic Description for a Master's Thesis on Excerpt Generation] [wiki:Self:Projects/ExcerptGeneration Excerpt Generation Project Overview] | This file must be sorted such that ''sort -c -k1,1 -k2,2n -k4,4n'' does not complain. |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/Templates Template peculiarities in the CompleteSearch code] | Input 2: a file ''<base-name>.docs'', with lines of the form |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/CVSHistory CVS history (TODO: what's this; is it still used?)] | <doc id><TAB>u:<url of document><TAB>t:<title of document><TAB>H:<raw text of document> |
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This file must be sorted so that ''sort -c -k1,1n'' does not complain. | |
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You find a very simple example under http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~bast/topsecret/example.tgz |
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== HowTos == | === 3. Build the word index === |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/SeleniumRC Testing with SeleniumRC] | {{{ buildIndex HYB <base-name>.words }}} |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/ModPhpStartetExe Have a click on a link start a local application] | This produces the (binary) index file ''<base-name>.hybrid''. It enables fast processing of the powerful query language offered by CompleteSearch (including full-text search, prefix search and completion, synonym search, error-tolerant search, etc.). |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/Examples Example programs etc.] | ''buildIndex'' also produces the file ''<base-name>.vocabulary'' that provides the mapping from word ids to words. This is an ASCII file, you can just look at it. |
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Note that by default, the HYB index is built with block of fixed sizes. It is more efficient though to pass it an explicit list of block boundaries (-B option). TODO: say something about this here, it's actually quite easy. |
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=== 4. Build the doc index === | |
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== ToDos == | {{{ buildDocsDB <name>.docs }}} |
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[wiki:Self:completesearch/TODO TODO list] | This produces the (binar) file ''<base-name>.docs.DB'' which provides an efficient mapping from doc ids to documents. This is needed if you want to show excerpts / snippets from documents matching the query (which is almost always the case). |
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[wiki:Self:NewFeatures New Features that would be nice to have] | === 5. Start server === {{{ startCompletionServer -Z <base-name>.hybrid }}} This starts the server. If you run it without argument, it prints usage information and shows you the (very many) command line options. The ''-Z'' argument lets the server run in the foreground, and output everything to the console, which is convenient for testing. The default mode is to run as a background process and write all output to a log file. === 6. Queries === The server listens on the port you specified in step 6 (''8888'' by default), and speaks ''HTTP''. For example: {{{ curl "http://localhost:8888/?q=die*&h=1&c=3" }}} This will return the result as an XML, which should be self-explanatory. Here is the list of parameters which you may pass along with the query (q=...) * h : number of hits * c : number of completions (of last query word, if you put a * behind it) * f : send hits starting from this one (default: 0) * en : number of excerpts per hit * er : size of excerpt * rd : how to rank the documents (0 = by score, 1 = by doc id, 2 = by word id, append a or d for ascending or descending) * rw : how to rank the words (0 = by score, 1 = by doc count, 2 = by occurrence count, 3 = by word id, 4 = by doc id, append a or d as above) * s : how to aggregate scores (expert option, ignore for the moment) * format : one of xml, json, jsonp. Return result in that format. |
CompleteSearch
Old Wiki from the MPII (lots of detailed / internal information)
Quick Intro
Follow these steps to checkout the CompleteSearch code from our SVN, build it, build an index, run a server on that index, and ask queries to that server via HTTP. Don't be afraid, it's easy. If you have questions, send an email to Hannah Bast <bast@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>.
0. Get source code
svn checkout http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/svn/completesearch/codebase Username: [ask us] Password: [ask us]
1. Compile
make all
This will build three binaries:
- buildIndex
- buildDocsDB
- startCompletionServer
If you call any of these binaries without parameters you will get usage info with all the available options.
2. Input (to be produced by a suitable parser)
Ínput 1: a file <base-name>.words, with lines of the form
<word><TAB><doc id><TAB><score><TAB><position>
This file must be sorted such that sort -c -k1,1 -k2,2n -k4,4n does not complain.
Input 2: a file <base-name>.docs, with lines of the form
<doc id><TAB>u:<url of document><TAB>t:<title of document><TAB>H:<raw text of document>
This file must be sorted so that sort -c -k1,1n does not complain.
You find a very simple example under http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~bast/topsecret/example.tgz
3. Build the word index
buildIndex HYB <base-name>.words
This produces the (binary) index file <base-name>.hybrid. It enables fast processing of the powerful query language offered by CompleteSearch (including full-text search, prefix search and completion, synonym search, error-tolerant search, etc.).
buildIndex also produces the file <base-name>.vocabulary that provides the mapping from word ids to words. This is an ASCII file, you can just look at it.
Note that by default, the HYB index is built with block of fixed sizes. It is more efficient though to pass it an explicit list of block boundaries (-B option). TODO: say something about this here, it's actually quite easy.
4. Build the doc index
buildDocsDB <name>.docs
This produces the (binar) file <base-name>.docs.DB which provides an efficient mapping from doc ids to documents. This is needed if you want to show excerpts / snippets from documents matching the query (which is almost always the case).
5. Start server
startCompletionServer -Z <base-name>.hybrid
This starts the server. If you run it without argument, it prints usage information and shows you the (very many) command line options. The -Z argument lets the server run in the foreground, and output everything to the console, which is convenient for testing. The default mode is to run as a background process and write all output to a log file.
6. Queries
The server listens on the port you specified in step 6 (8888 by default), and speaks HTTP. For example:
curl "http://localhost:8888/?q=die*&h=1&c=3"
This will return the result as an XML, which should be self-explanatory.
Here is the list of parameters which you may pass along with the query (q=...)
- h : number of hits
- c : number of completions (of last query word, if you put a * behind it)
- f : send hits starting from this one (default: 0)
- en : number of excerpts per hit
- er : size of excerpt
- rd : how to rank the documents (0 = by score, 1 = by doc id, 2 = by word id, append a or d for ascending or descending)
- rw : how to rank the words (0 = by score, 1 = by doc count, 2 = by occurrence count, 3 = by word id, 4 = by doc id, append a or d as above)
- s : how to aggregate scores (expert option, ignore for the moment)
- format : one of xml, json, jsonp. Return result in that format.