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 so far: 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.

Here are the recordings of the lectures so far (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). 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.

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.

Here are our master solutions: Master solution for Mid-Term Exam,Master solution for Exercise Sheet 9, Master solution for Exercise Sheet 10.

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 13. The deadline is Thursday 11Feb10 16:00.

Questions and comments about Exercise Sheet 13 below this line (most recent on top)

Hi, in exercise 1, is it really possible to implement the complete-link heuristic with a priority queue so that the finding of the next two clusters which have to be merged only needs logarithmic time? If I did it right, then we have to fill the priority queue with the possible pairs of clusters and use their similarity with the complete-link heuristic to sort the queue. But when two clusters are merged now, then the distances of the combined cluster (i.e. the one with the smaller index) to the other clusters can change, so after each merge the priority queue has to be rebuilt to ensure it's heap property. But a complete rebuild of the queue is quite time consuming, or am I doing anything wrong? Florian 7Feb10 20:09

Hi Mirko, you are free to modify the existing program (linked to in my first comment below), or write the program from scratch (or transcribe my C++ program) in a programming language of your choice. Hannah 7Feb10 16:40

Hi, one question about Exercise 1: the text says "Modify the code", does this mean we have to extend the C++-program, or are we also allowed to write the complete program in an other language like Java? Mirko 7Feb10 16:33

I can't say now with certainty which courses exactly I will offer in a year. It is likely though, that we will offer bachelor / master projects on a regular basis. Hannah 5Feb10 21:17

Yes, Marjan is right. Johannes 2010-02-05:1931

Probably Johannes wants/has to do his project next year. Marjan 5Feb10 18:32

Hi Johannes, I don't quite understand your comment, what do you mean? Hannah 5Feb10 17:33

Even if it was in one year? Johannes 2010-02-05:1719

If you are interested in doing the Bachelor / Master's project (following this course as a block course), please send me an email asap: bast@informatik.uni-freiburg.de . Hannah 4Deb10 19:30

Here is the hierarchical clustering code which we have written in the lecture. Hannah 2Feb10 18:47