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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]]. | Here are PDFs of the slides of the lectures: [[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]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-7.pdf|Lecture 7]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-8.pdf|Lecture 8]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-9.pdf|Lecture 9]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-10.pdf|Lecture 10]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-11.pdf|Lecture 11]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-12.pdf|Lecture 12]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-13.pdf|Lecture 13]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-14.pdf|Lecture 14]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-projects.pdf|Projects]]. |
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Here are the recordings of some of the lectures so far (Lecture 1 still missing, in Lecture 2 the microphone signal did not come through): [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture1/Search_Engines,_Lecture_3,_5Nov09_1_05_11_2009_16_16_20.html|Lecture 3]] | Here are the recordings of the lectures (except Lecture 2, where we had problems with the microphone), LPD = Lecturnity recording: [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-1.lpd|Recording Lecture 1 (LPD)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-3.lpd|Recording Lecture 3 (LPD)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-4.lpd|Recording Lecture 4 (LPD)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-5.lpd|Recording Lecture 5 (LPD without audio)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-6.lpd|Recording Lecture 6 (LPD)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-7.avi|Recording Lecture 7 (AVI)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-8.avi|Recording Lecture 8 (AVI)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-9.avi|Recording Lecture 9 (AVI)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-10.avi|Recording Lecture 10 (AVI)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-11.avi|Recording Lecture 11 (AVI)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-12.avi|Recording Lecture 12 (AVI)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-13.avi|Recording Lecture 13 (AVI)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-14.avi|Recording Lecture 14 (AVI)]]. To play the Lecturnity recordings (.lpd files) you need the [[http://www.lecturnity.de/de/download/lecturnity-player|Lecturnity Player, which you can download here]]. I put the Camtasia recordings as .avi files, which you can play with any ordinary video player; I would recommend [[http://www.videolan.org/vlc|VLC]]. |
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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]]. | 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]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-7.pdf|Exercise Sheet 7]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-8.pdf|Exercise Sheet 8]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-9.pdf|Exercise Sheet 9]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-10.pdf|Exercise Sheet 10]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-11.pdf|Exercise Sheet 11]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-12.pdf|Exercise Sheet 12]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-13.pdf|Exercise Sheet 13]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-14.pdf|Exercise Sheet 14]]. |
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Here are your solutions and comments on the previous exercise sheets: [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet1|Exercise Sheet 1]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet2|Exercise Sheet 2]]. | 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]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet6|Solutions and Comments 6]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet7|Solutions and Comments 7]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet8|Solutions and Comments 8]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet9|Solutions and Comments 9]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet10|Solutions and Comments 10]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet11|Solutions and Comments 11]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet12|Solutions and Comments 12]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet13|Solutions and Comments 13]]. Here are our master solutions: [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/solution-midterm.pdf|Master solution for Mid-Term Exam]],[[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/solution-9.pdf|Master solution for Exercise Sheet 9]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/solution-10.pdf|Master solution for Exercise Sheet 10]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/solution-11.pdf|Master solution for Exercise Sheet 11]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/solution-12.pdf|Master solution for Exercise Sheet 12]]. |
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= Exercise Sheet 3 = Above, you find a link to a published recording of Lecture 3. Please try if that works for you. |
[[SearchEnginesWS0910/MidTermExam|Here is everything about the mid-term exam]]. The final exam is on Friday March 12, 2010. The written exam begins at 2.00 pm in HS 026. The oral exams are scheduled on the same day. |
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[[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet3|Here you can upload your solutions for Exercise Sheet 3]]. | [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet14|Here is the table with the links to your uploaded solutions for Exercise Sheet 14]]. The deadline is Thursday 18Feb10 16:00. |
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== Questions or comments below this line, most recent on top please == | |
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Hi, I just looked at the new exercise sheet 4, in exercise 1 we should generate a permutation and sum the resulting array up, am I wrong or doesn't iterating method two iterate throw the whole array in every situation. for ex.: n= 5 permutation: 1 5 3 4 2, then A[1] = 3, A[A[1]]= A[3] = 1, A[1] = 3 ... '''Daniel 12Nov09 19:44pm''' | == More general questions and comments == |
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Hi Paresh + all. If you do and-ish retrieval, all documents which contain at least one of the query words are relevant. If you do and retrieval, only the documents which contain all of the query words are relevant. Independent of which scoring scheme you use, you can do it either way. Just clearly state which way you are doing it, and things will be fine. '''Hannah 10Nov09 2:46am''' | Hi Johannes + all. Concerning your inverted index question: it really depends on the application, if you have lists of only doc ids and want to intersect them fast, you would sort the lists by doc id, if you want to do top-k you would sort them by score. Duplicates only make sense when you also store positional information, which we didn't do in the lecture. Concerning your Elias-Gamma question: there is an upper bound, which I think we also derived in the lecture, and that is log n + O(log^(k) n) + O(1), but I couldn't tell you what are the constants hidden in the two Big-Ohs. '''Hannah 7Mar10 18:19''' |
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Hi, If i use and-ish retrieval how is the relevance of hits is measured? The hits which have one of the keywords are relevant or only those who have all the keywords are relevant. I am confused!! '''Paresh 10 Nov 1:31AM ''' | '''Inverted indexes and like''': If a inverted index maps a word, w, (perhaps a string) to a subset, W(w), of the set of all documents (perhaps only the IDs as numbers). Is W(w) always sorted? Does it contain duplicates? For some application (and the algorithms for them) this seems to matter. I'm just asking in case of a exam task, involving coding (especially k-way-merge). '''Johannes 2010-03-07T13:54''' |
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Hi Dragos + all, pick three documents which got a score of zero. For any reasonable query and a not too small collection there should be such documents. '''Hannah 10Nov09 0:24am''' | '''Elias-Gamma Encoding''': Is there a closed form for the length of the code for an integer x when elias is iterated k times? '''Johannes 2010-03-07T15:14''' |
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Hello :). For exercise 3, should we find three-relevant documents that were not returned at all, or that were low ranked ? I guess that the goal is to discuss why the low-rank, right ? :) '''Dragos 9Nov 11.56 PM''' | == Questions and comments about the master solution of the mid-term exam == '''Johannes 2010-03-07T12:40''' : '''1.3''': CLAIM: If an encoding is prefix-free, then there is no code that is a prefix of a different code. Does this claim hold? If so, then 001 mustn't be a code, since 0 is a code and a prefix of 001. Is this right? There was an obvious mistake which I now corrected (00 should be mapped to 1, not 0). '''Hannah 7Mar10 12:56''' '''1.4''': It states: "For a sequence of length n, we need to generate n/2 such codes [...]." Does not each symbol of the n from the sequence get encoded? Each code stands for two bits at a time, so for a sequence of n bits, you have to generate n/2 codes. I replaced ''sequence of length n'' by ''sequence of n bits'' to make this clearer. '''Hannah 7Mar10 12:58''' '''3.4''': The function returns the number of common k-grams (as far as I see). Can the return-line be completed with a call to the function from 3.2 to return the Jaccard-distance? |
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Hi Dragos, if you want you can use your implementation from Exercise 1 (extended to deal with scores, of course). If your implementation could only deal with two-word queries, you have to find a suitable two-word query (see what I wrote below), but that should be possible. I don't understand what this has to do with the vector-space model though? The vector space model is just a way to get a formula for ranking documents. Processing the queries is still done via inverted lists. Understand that inverted lists are just an efficient way to store the non-zero entries of a sparse matrix. You would never store the term-document matrix as a two-dimensional array, that would be huge ... and a big waste, because most entries are actually zero (that's what "sparse" means). '''Hannah 9Nov09 2:31am''' | Yes, indeed, I replaced ''return l'' by ''return jaccardDistance(x, y, k, l)''. '''Hannah 7Mar10 13:01''' |
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For exercises 2 and 3, should the query be multi-word, or the exercises refer to the two-word query implemented in Ex Sheet 1 ? I am asking because it's clearly more simple to use the "easy" method(presented in the lecture) for two-word queries and the "vector space model" for a multi-word query. Thank you in advance ! '''Dragos 9Nov 00.27 ''' | '''5.4''': Does the top-k-algorithm return the top k documents? If so, which k had to been used in this task? What exactly is the condition for stopping? What exactly is the update rule for the ranges? My idea is that (for a fixed document) the minimum is always the known minimum from any of the lists and the maximum is always the (already known) minimum plus the lowest score, seen in any list different than the one the minimum is from. In case of only two lists there may be some simplifications. |
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To Björn + all: I said non-trivial so that you don't take a super-specific query, which has only one or two matching documents, which you can easily retrieve with 100% precision and 100% recall with the right query. An example would be an article with a very specific title like "On the influence of Blancmanges from Skyron on Scottish tennis playing skills". Then, if your collection is not super large, the query "blancmanges skyron scottish" will be perfect. Don't pick a query like that. Also do not just formulate a query, but also write down the search request that you had in mind, so that you have a yardstick to determine what is relevant for that query and what is not. [[attachment:trec_queries.txt|Here are some example of queries from TREC, the big IR benchmark conference]]. Each query there has a so-called "title" (what you would typically enter as query words), a "description" (a short description of what the query is about), and a "narrative" (a long description of what the query is about). '''Hannah 08Nov09 3:28pm''' | The task asked for the ''top-ranked document'', so k = 1. We can stop when the upper bound for all documents not yet seen is ''strictly'' below the k-th largest lower bound so far, and when the score ranges for the documents already seen are such that it is clear which are the top-k documents and in which order. If there are ties, and we don't care how they are broken, and we don't care to know the order of the top-k documents, we can sometimes stop earlier. Does this answer all your questions? '''Hannah 7Mar10 13:06''' |
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Concerning the exercises: What is a non-trivial query? A query that does contain multiple documents or does it have to consist of multiple words, too? Anything else? '''Björn 8Nov09 14:26''' | Thanks a lot for your comments! Please go on if you have more. '''Hannah 7Mar10 13:07''' |
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The recording works for mac os with flip4mac: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx '''Jonas 8Nov09 14:06''' | Thanks a lot for your answers! '''Johannes 2010-03-07T13:44''' |
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Maybe you could consider putting it on electures - it seems to be the standard place for putting recordings and slides online as far as I know and there are already some solutions for putting lecturnity files online in a platform-independent manner. I don't know if it's practical but it's also nice having all lectures in one place i'd say... http://electures.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ '''Alex 7Nov09 18:05''' | == Questions and comments about Exercise Sheet 14 below this line (most recent on top) == |
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In Linux I see no suitable plugin. I would like to download the .lpd file too. We can test it with our old Lecturnity versions (i have 2.0) and if it doesn't work we can download 4.x at http://www.lecturnity.de/de/download/lecturnity-player/ '''Waldemar 7Nov09 12:49''' | Hi Johannes: why don't you start with the first few questions, and then let's see whether it makes sense to continue this via the Wiki, or via private email, or via a meeting in person. '''Hannah 6Mar10 17:36''' |
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Thanks, Paresh, yes I can do that. So do all students have access to the latest version (should be at least 4.x otherwise it will not work I think) of Lecturnity? '''Hannah 6Nov09 11:35pm''' | Yes, the final exam is like the mid-term exam in this respect. '''Hannah 6Mar10 17:36''' |
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Hi, yes the recording is working properly after downloading the plug-in. kindly upload the rest files. Also it will be helpful if you could give links to .lpd files since it is easier to download and play them in lecturnity player than browser and one can play them at any time. '''Paresh 6 Nov09 11:25pm''' | Alex: http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/wiki/teaching/SearchEnginesWS0910/MidTermExam, so it seems to be allowed. '''Mirko, 6Mar10 16:10''' |
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To Mirko + all: whenever we write "prove", we mean a proof in the mathematical sense. For the exercises, the challenge is often two-fold. You first have to turn the statement of the exercise into a formal statement. Then you have to prove that statement. For Exercise 4 you will first have to specify the order in which the inverted lists should be sorted. Then you have to prove that the document with the i-th largest score (formed by max aggregation), where i <= k, is indeed among one of the k first entries wrt to the specified order, in at least one of the inverted lists. '''Hannah 3Nov09 10:29pm''' | Hi, I was wondering, will the exam next week also be an open book exam like the mid-term? Perhaps I overlooked it, but I don't think this is stated anywhere yet. '''Alex 6Mar10 13:49''' |
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About Exercise4: I actually dont know how to to write down (but i think i know how/why it works) the prove of top-k retrieval with the maximum-score. Is it okay to describe it in words or do we have to formalize it in a certain way? '''Mirko 5Nov09 22:21pm''' | I have lots of questions and don't know where to put them. I suppose this wiki-page will get chaotic pretty fast if I post 20 questions. '''Johannes VI Mar MMX 12:00''' |
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Ok, I have played around a bit with lecturnity myself, and published Lecture 3, see the link above. For Marjan it worked, he only needed to install some Windows Media plugin for his Firefox. Please also try, and tell me if there are problems. Also tell me if everything goes fine. (It's enough if one or two people tell me.) If it does I will also publish Lecture 1. Lecture 2, as I said, is lost to the world forever (well, at least the audio), since audio recording did not work that day. '''Hannah 3Nov09 10:06pm''' | I'm sorry for the delay with the master solutions. I am at a conference right now but will try to make progress with this over the weekend. '''Hannah 4Mar10 23:59''' |
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Dear Marius + all: Yes, the lectures are recorded, except for Lecture 2, where there were technical problems (no signal from the microphone). I always copy the Lecturnity files to my machine after the lecture, but don't know yet how how to publish them on the web so that they are easily viewable by others. I will meet with our group's technician tomorrow, and ask him about this. Stay tuned! '''Hannah 5Nov09 8:36pm''' | Do we get master solutions for ex. 11, 12, 13 and 14? '''Johannes 04Mar2010 23:32 ZULU''' |
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Hi, I noticed that you record your lectures. Is it somehow possible to download these recordings or will they be released later? '''Marius Nov5th, 4:54 p.m.''' | Now they're there again. '''Marjan 01Mar18:09''' |
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Hi Waleed, when you create a conflict, it's your responsibility to remove it and not leave a mess behind. If the instructions given when the conflict occurs do not suffice, try to find more information on the Wiki help pages. '''Hannah 3Nov09 9:00pm''' | ARGH! I'm very sorry. My Down-Them-All Plugin for Firefox seems to have deleted all the lecture PDFs! Sorry for that. Rollback to previous versions does not seem to work. I hope, someone has already downloaded them all and is able to restore them! SORRY! Interesting, I've got the rights to delete something from the main page, though. '''Marius Mar 1st 2010 2:38 p.m.''' |
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I uploaded my Files and put a new row on table in the excercies sheet 2 page but when i pressed save button it shows me conflict. my version and other version of list. how can i remove conflict? does my assignment is submitted properly or not? '''Waleed''' 3Nov09 | (Reminder:) Hello, the master solutions are not online, yet. '''alex n 1Mar10 11:08''' Yes, we are working on it. Please remind us again if they aren't online by the end of this week. '''Hannah 23Feb10 14:30''' Do we get master solutions for ex. 11, 12, 13 and 14? '''Johannes 23Feb10 14:05''' Hi Matthias, yes, Pr(A) = 1 - Pr(not A), for any event A, and so for any random variable X, Pr(X <= x) = 1 - Pr(X > x), because X <= x and X > x are complementary events. For continuous random variables (like variables with a normal distribution), the difference between <= and < and >= and > is immaterial, because Pr(X = x) for each fixed x. But anyway, to compute the probability, you first have to transform it a bit, like I did in the lecture, and then obtain Pr(N(0,1) >= sqrt(n1) * (µ1 - µ) / σ) and Pr(N(0,1) <= sqrt(n2) * (µ - µ2) / σ). To evaluate the latter you can also simply use the symmetry of the normal distribution, due to which one has Pr(N(0,1) <= -x) = Pr(N(0,1) >= x). '''Hannah 18Feb10 12:58''' Hi, how can we compute Pr(N(n2 * µ2, n2 * σ^2^) <= n2 * µ2 ? Can we use 1- (Pr(N(n2 * µ2, n2 * σ^2^) >= n2 * µ2) for that ? '''Matthias 18Feb10 12:01''' Hi Florian + all, one of µ1 and µ2 is larger than µ and one is smaller. Let's assume µ1 is larger and µ2 is smaller. Then for µ1 you have to look at Pr(N(n1 * µ, n1 * σ^2^) >= n1 * µ1). But for µ2 you have to look at Pr(N(n2 * µ2, n2 * σ^2^) <= n2 * µ2). Note the <= instead of the >= for the second probability. Recall the meaning of these probabilities. Just as an example, let µ be 100 and µ1 be 150 and µ2 be 50. Then the first probability means: what is the probability that I see a mean of ''150 or more'' in my first sample, although the mean of my distribution is 100. The second probability means: what is the probability that I see a mean of ''50 or less'' in my second sample, although the mean of my distribution is 100. If you take both <= or both >= for both probabilities, it is to be expected that you get two completely different probabilities, one very low and one very high (except when they are both close to 50%). Please ask again if this is still unclear. '''Hannah 17Feb10 21:51''' Sorry, with probability for µ1 I meant Pr(N(n1 * µ, n1 * σ^2^) >= n1 * µ1) and accordingly with probability for µ2 I meant Pr(N(n2 * µ, n2 * σ^2^) >= n2 * µ2) where n1=n2 for the exercise sheet. '''Florian 17Feb10 21:18''' Hi Florian, what exactly do you mean by ''probability for µ1'' and ''probability for µ2''? '''Hannah 17Feb10 21:02''' Hi, what values are we expected to get for exercise 4? I always get a probability of about 99.9% for μ1 and a value of about 0.07% for μ2, can that be? '''Florian 17Feb10 18:25''' Hi Florian, yes, the ''averages'' in Exercise 3 should be ''average running times''. I uploaded a new version of the sheet, where I corrected this. '''Hannah 14Feb10 17:48''' Hi, I guess we should measure the running times to determine the efficiency of the programs for exercise 3? '''Florian 15Feb10 17:42''' Hi Claudius, you should compute Pr(D|H0), exactly as done in the lecture for Example 2, where we computed this probability as Pr(X > x), where X is a random variable with distribution N(0,1), that is, normal with mean 0 and variance 1, and x depends on the mean and variance of your data. '''Hannah 14Feb10 16:44''' Hi. If I have understood correctly, we have to compute Pr(H|D) in Exercise 4. From statistical hypothesis testing, we get Pr(D|H). Now, Pr(H|D) = Pr(D|H) * (Pr(H) / Pr(D)). We know Pr(D|H) and we can compute Pr(D), but what value do we have to use for Pr(H)? '''Claudius 14Feb10 14:41''' Hi Eric, I don't care whether you use integers or doubles, but I am curious why the one should be any harder than the other? '''Hannah 12Feb10 19:02''' May we use integers for sorting? Or do we have to use doubles? This is important for generating my sorted array '''Eric 12Feb10 18:56''' If you're asking about the merging you can of course use a priority queue if you want, but you don't really need it when merging 2 lists. '''Marjan 18:28''' Why would you use a priority queue? It's simple sorting, the exercise is not about implementing your own sorting algorithm or something like that. About exercise 3, it should be clear from the exercise itself that the sequences should be sorted (otherwise how can the merging work?) '''Marjan 18:23''' Means that we have nothing to do than use a priority queue or something like that and don't have to implement the sorting? And at Exercise 3 the random set should be an ordered one or not? '''Alex 12Feb10 18:19''' We prefer randomized sorting using bitonic networks, alternatively combined with LSD radix sort or simple pancake sort. That's of course a joke, it should be clear that you can use the built-in sorting functions (your own implementation will be certainly slower). '''Marjan 12Feb10 18:12''' What does "do a standard sort" in exercise 2 mean? Shall I implement one on my own, or may I use the Java built-in sorting mechanisms? Also, which sorting algorithm do you prefer for this? '''Eric 12Feb10 18:04''' |
Welcome to the Wiki page of the course Search Engines, WS 2009 / 2010. Lecturer: Hannah Bast. Tutorials: Marjan Celikik. Course web page: click here.
Here are PDFs of the slides of the lectures: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Lecture 8, Lecture 9, Lecture 10, Lecture 11, Lecture 12, Lecture 13, Lecture 14, Projects.
Here are the recordings of the lectures (except Lecture 2, where we had problems with the microphone), LPD = Lecturnity recording: Recording Lecture 1 (LPD), Recording Lecture 3 (LPD), Recording Lecture 4 (LPD), Recording Lecture 5 (LPD without audio), Recording Lecture 6 (LPD), Recording Lecture 7 (AVI), Recording Lecture 8 (AVI), Recording Lecture 9 (AVI), Recording Lecture 10 (AVI), Recording Lecture 11 (AVI), Recording Lecture 12 (AVI), Recording Lecture 13 (AVI), Recording Lecture 14 (AVI). To play the Lecturnity recordings (.lpd files) you need the Lecturnity Player, which you can download here. I put the Camtasia recordings as .avi files, which you can play with any ordinary video player; I would recommend VLC.
Here are PDFs of the exercise sheets so far: Exercise Sheet 1, Exercise Sheet 2, Exercise Sheet 3, Exercise Sheet 4, Exercise Sheet 5, Exercise Sheet 6, Exercise Sheet 7, Exercise Sheet 8, Exercise Sheet 9, Exercise Sheet 10, Exercise Sheet 11, Exercise Sheet 12, Exercise Sheet 13, Exercise Sheet 14.
Here are your solutions and comments on the previous exercise sheets: Solutions and Comments 1, Solutions and Comments 2, Solutions and Comments 3, Solutions and Comments 4, Solutions and Comments 5, Solutions and Comments 6, Solutions and Comments 7, Solutions and Comments 8, Solutions and Comments 9, Solutions and Comments 10, Solutions and Comments 11, Solutions and Comments 12, Solutions and Comments 13.
Here are our master solutions: Master solution for Mid-Term Exam,Master solution for Exercise Sheet 9, Master solution for Exercise Sheet 10, Master solution for Exercise Sheet 11, Master solution for Exercise Sheet 12.
Here are the rules for the exercises as explained in Lecture 2.
Here is everything about the mid-term exam. The final exam is on Friday March 12, 2010. The written exam begins at 2.00 pm in HS 026. The oral exams are scheduled on the same day.
Here is the table with the links to your uploaded solutions for Exercise Sheet 14. The deadline is Thursday 18Feb10 16:00.
More general questions and comments
Hi Johannes + all. Concerning your inverted index question: it really depends on the application, if you have lists of only doc ids and want to intersect them fast, you would sort the lists by doc id, if you want to do top-k you would sort them by score. Duplicates only make sense when you also store positional information, which we didn't do in the lecture. Concerning your Elias-Gamma question: there is an upper bound, which I think we also derived in the lecture, and that is log n + O(log^(k) n) + O(1), but I couldn't tell you what are the constants hidden in the two Big-Ohs. Hannah 7Mar10 18:19
Inverted indexes and like: If a inverted index maps a word, w, (perhaps a string) to a subset, W(w), of the set of all documents (perhaps only the IDs as numbers). Is W(w) always sorted? Does it contain duplicates? For some application (and the algorithms for them) this seems to matter. I'm just asking in case of a exam task, involving coding (especially k-way-merge). Johannes 2010-03-07T13:54
Elias-Gamma Encoding: Is there a closed form for the length of the code for an integer x when elias is iterated k times? Johannes 2010-03-07T15:14
Questions and comments about the master solution of the mid-term exam
Johannes 2010-03-07T12:40 :
1.3: CLAIM: If an encoding is prefix-free, then there is no code that is a prefix of a different code. Does this claim hold? If so, then 001 mustn't be a code, since 0 is a code and a prefix of 001. Is this right?
There was an obvious mistake which I now corrected (00 should be mapped to 1, not 0). Hannah 7Mar10 12:56
1.4: It states: "For a sequence of length n, we need to generate n/2 such codes [...]." Does not each symbol of the n from the sequence get encoded?
Each code stands for two bits at a time, so for a sequence of n bits, you have to generate n/2 codes. I replaced sequence of length n by sequence of n bits to make this clearer. Hannah 7Mar10 12:58
3.4: The function returns the number of common k-grams (as far as I see). Can the return-line be completed with a call to the function from 3.2 to return the Jaccard-distance?
Yes, indeed, I replaced return l by return jaccardDistance(x, y, k, l). Hannah 7Mar10 13:01
5.4: Does the top-k-algorithm return the top k documents? If so, which k had to been used in this task? What exactly is the condition for stopping? What exactly is the update rule for the ranges? My idea is that (for a fixed document) the minimum is always the known minimum from any of the lists and the maximum is always the (already known) minimum plus the lowest score, seen in any list different than the one the minimum is from. In case of only two lists there may be some simplifications.
The task asked for the top-ranked document, so k = 1. We can stop when the upper bound for all documents not yet seen is strictly below the k-th largest lower bound so far, and when the score ranges for the documents already seen are such that it is clear which are the top-k documents and in which order. If there are ties, and we don't care how they are broken, and we don't care to know the order of the top-k documents, we can sometimes stop earlier. Does this answer all your questions? Hannah 7Mar10 13:06
Thanks a lot for your comments! Please go on if you have more. Hannah 7Mar10 13:07
Thanks a lot for your answers! Johannes 2010-03-07T13:44
Questions and comments about Exercise Sheet 14 below this line (most recent on top)
Hi Johannes: why don't you start with the first few questions, and then let's see whether it makes sense to continue this via the Wiki, or via private email, or via a meeting in person. Hannah 6Mar10 17:36
Yes, the final exam is like the mid-term exam in this respect. Hannah 6Mar10 17:36
Alex: http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/wiki/teaching/SearchEnginesWS0910/MidTermExam, so it seems to be allowed. Mirko, 6Mar10 16:10
Hi, I was wondering, will the exam next week also be an open book exam like the mid-term? Perhaps I overlooked it, but I don't think this is stated anywhere yet. Alex 6Mar10 13:49
I have lots of questions and don't know where to put them. I suppose this wiki-page will get chaotic pretty fast if I post 20 questions. Johannes VI Mar MMX 12:00
I'm sorry for the delay with the master solutions. I am at a conference right now but will try to make progress with this over the weekend. Hannah 4Mar10 23:59
Do we get master solutions for ex. 11, 12, 13 and 14? Johannes 04Mar2010 23:32 ZULU
Now they're there again. Marjan 01Mar18:09
ARGH! I'm very sorry. My Down-Them-All Plugin for Firefox seems to have deleted all the lecture PDFs! Sorry for that. Rollback to previous versions does not seem to work. I hope, someone has already downloaded them all and is able to restore them! SORRY! Interesting, I've got the rights to delete something from the main page, though. Marius Mar 1st 2010 2:38 p.m.
(Reminder:) Hello, the master solutions are not online, yet. alex n 1Mar10 11:08
Yes, we are working on it. Please remind us again if they aren't online by the end of this week. Hannah 23Feb10 14:30
Do we get master solutions for ex. 11, 12, 13 and 14? Johannes 23Feb10 14:05
Hi Matthias, yes, Pr(A) = 1 - Pr(not A), for any event A, and so for any random variable X, Pr(X <= x) = 1 - Pr(X > x), because X <= x and X > x are complementary events. For continuous random variables (like variables with a normal distribution), the difference between <= and < and >= and > is immaterial, because Pr(X = x) for each fixed x. But anyway, to compute the probability, you first have to transform it a bit, like I did in the lecture, and then obtain Pr(N(0,1) >= sqrt(n1) * (µ1 - µ) / σ) and Pr(N(0,1) <= sqrt(n2) * (µ - µ2) / σ). To evaluate the latter you can also simply use the symmetry of the normal distribution, due to which one has Pr(N(0,1) <= -x) = Pr(N(0,1) >= x). Hannah 18Feb10 12:58
Hi, how can we compute Pr(N(n2 * µ2, n2 * σ2) <= n2 * µ2 ? Can we use 1- (Pr(N(n2 * µ2, n2 * σ2) >= n2 * µ2) for that ? Matthias 18Feb10 12:01
Hi Florian + all, one of µ1 and µ2 is larger than µ and one is smaller. Let's assume µ1 is larger and µ2 is smaller. Then for µ1 you have to look at Pr(N(n1 * µ, n1 * σ2) >= n1 * µ1). But for µ2 you have to look at Pr(N(n2 * µ2, n2 * σ2) <= n2 * µ2). Note the <= instead of the >= for the second probability. Recall the meaning of these probabilities. Just as an example, let µ be 100 and µ1 be 150 and µ2 be 50. Then the first probability means: what is the probability that I see a mean of 150 or more in my first sample, although the mean of my distribution is 100. The second probability means: what is the probability that I see a mean of 50 or less in my second sample, although the mean of my distribution is 100. If you take both <= or both >= for both probabilities, it is to be expected that you get two completely different probabilities, one very low and one very high (except when they are both close to 50%). Please ask again if this is still unclear. Hannah 17Feb10 21:51
Sorry, with probability for µ1 I meant Pr(N(n1 * µ, n1 * σ2) >= n1 * µ1) and accordingly with probability for µ2 I meant Pr(N(n2 * µ, n2 * σ2) >= n2 * µ2) where n1=n2 for the exercise sheet. Florian 17Feb10 21:18
Hi Florian, what exactly do you mean by probability for µ1 and probability for µ2? Hannah 17Feb10 21:02
Hi, what values are we expected to get for exercise 4? I always get a probability of about 99.9% for μ1 and a value of about 0.07% for μ2, can that be? Florian 17Feb10 18:25
Hi Florian, yes, the averages in Exercise 3 should be average running times. I uploaded a new version of the sheet, where I corrected this. Hannah 14Feb10 17:48
Hi, I guess we should measure the running times to determine the efficiency of the programs for exercise 3? Florian 15Feb10 17:42
Hi Claudius, you should compute Pr(D|H0), exactly as done in the lecture for Example 2, where we computed this probability as Pr(X > x), where X is a random variable with distribution N(0,1), that is, normal with mean 0 and variance 1, and x depends on the mean and variance of your data. Hannah 14Feb10 16:44
Hi. If I have understood correctly, we have to compute Pr(H|D) in Exercise 4. From statistical hypothesis testing, we get Pr(D|H). Now, Pr(H|D) = Pr(D|H) * (Pr(H) / Pr(D)). We know Pr(D|H) and we can compute Pr(D), but what value do we have to use for Pr(H)? Claudius 14Feb10 14:41
Hi Eric, I don't care whether you use integers or doubles, but I am curious why the one should be any harder than the other? Hannah 12Feb10 19:02
May we use integers for sorting? Or do we have to use doubles? This is important for generating my sorted array Eric 12Feb10 18:56
If you're asking about the merging you can of course use a priority queue if you want, but you don't really need it when merging 2 lists. Marjan 18:28
Why would you use a priority queue? It's simple sorting, the exercise is not about implementing your own sorting algorithm or something like that. About exercise 3, it should be clear from the exercise itself that the sequences should be sorted (otherwise how can the merging work?) Marjan 18:23
Means that we have nothing to do than use a priority queue or something like that and don't have to implement the sorting? And at Exercise 3 the random set should be an ordered one or not? Alex 12Feb10 18:19
We prefer randomized sorting using bitonic networks, alternatively combined with LSD radix sort or simple pancake sort. That's of course a joke, it should be clear that you can use the built-in sorting functions (your own implementation will be certainly slower). Marjan 12Feb10 18:12
What does "do a standard sort" in exercise 2 mean? Shall I implement one on my own, or may I use the Java built-in sorting mechanisms? Also, which sorting algorithm do you prefer for this? Eric 12Feb10 18:04