== Overview of the lectures (tentative) ==

Here is an overview of the lectures that will be given. If I have the dates right, there will be 16 lectures overall, 9 lectures before the christmas break, and 7 after the christmas break. The following list is tentative and may (and probably) will change as the semester evolves.


'''Lecture 1:'''  Deutsch / English, Introduction, Demos, Parsing, Grep, Inverted Index, List Intersection, Exercises + Wiki HowTo.
Goal:  after this lecture you should be able to download a collection, parse it, build an index for it, and query that index.

'''Lecture 2:'''  HTML, form tag, web server, Apache, TCP / IP, socket communication.
Goal:  after this lecture you should be able to write a simple search engine user interface that sends a query to the backend, gets the answer back and displays it.

'''Lecture 3:'''  Ranking, Vector Space Model, Relevance Assessment.
Goal:  enhance your index by scores and your search engine by ranking. Automatic query evaluation.

'''Lecture 4:'''  Efficiency 1: compression, IO-efficiency / cache-efficiency, analysis.
Goal:  speed-up query processing and be able to analyze it.

'''Lecture 5:'''  Efficiency 2: top-k retrieval, list intersection.
Goal:  further speed up of query processing.

'''Lecture 6:'''  wildcard search, synonym search.
Goal:  dito.

'''Lecture 7:'''  DOM, JavaScript, AJAX, jquery.
Goal:  Build an interactive user interface, e.g., search as you type.

'''Lecture 8:'''  Error-correcting search, did you mean ... ?
Goal:  dito.

'''Lecture 9:'''  Suffix Arrays.
Goal:  dito.

CHRISTMAS BREAK (2 weeks)

'''Lecture 10:'''  Entity recognition.

'''Lecture 11:'''  XML retrieval, what ist XML, XQuery, XPath, Nexi, XML retrieval with an inverted index, XML retrieval via suffix arrays.

'''Lecture 12:'''  Semantic Web, SPARQL.

'''Lecture 13:'''  Programming languages.  DO THAT EARLIER!

'''Lecture 14:'''  Clustering.

'''Lecture 15:'''  Machine Learning, SVMs.

'''Lecture 16:'''  Overflow buffer. Talk about 2-week block-project to come.

Other topics: Internationalization / UTF-8. MapReduce. Web crawling.

END OF SEMESTER

Right after the lectures, a 2-week block project on the topic of the lectures will take place.