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]].

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)]].

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]].

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]].

= Exercise Sheet 5 =

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/ExerciseSheet5|Here you can upload your solutions for Exercise Sheet 5]].

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

Why should two lists of 10MB size result in 100MB processed, if each list is only iterated over once to do the intersection (O(m+n) complexity)? The data processed after all is just 20MB, no matter how the algorithm is implemented (even if it iterates a thousand times over every list, it still just processed 20MB of data). '''Thomas 21Nov09 12:00am'''

By the way, whenever I talk about "lists" here or on the exercise sheets or in the lecture, I am not referring to a particular data structure (in particular I am NOT talking about a linked list), but "list of elements"  is just "series of elements". And well, "inverted list" is just common terminology. To implement a "list of doc ids" or anything like that you should of course always use an array or a vector or a data structure like that. '''Hannah 21Nov09 8:30pm'''

Hi Marius + all, let me explain it by an example. Your two input lists occupy a certain amount of memory. Every programming language has built-in functions for this. For example, if your list entries are ints, then for C++ you can use sizeof(int) to get the number of bytes occupied by one entry.  Multiply by the number of list elements to get the number of bytes occupied by one list. One Megabyte (MB) is 1024 * 1024 bytes. Now assume your two lists together occupy 10 MB. Assume your code takes 0.1 seconds to intersect these two lists. Then the "MB processed per second" is 100 MB / second. '''Hannah 21Nov09 8:26pm'''

Hi, in exercise 3, what do you mean by "MB processed per second"? Is a MB the equivalent to 4096 processed integers? And when is a MB to be considered as processed? When it's written to the intersected list or in the comparisons, already? '''Marius 21Nov09 7:33pm'''

The slides + all my hand-writing on it are now online, see the link ''Recording Lecture 5 (no audio)'' above. '''Hannah 20Nov09 3:24am'''

The recording of todays lecture again did not work. I am very sorry for that (and very angry that there are so many problems with this software). Anyway, the end result of the lecture, that is the slides with all the writing on it are available and I will put them online as soon as possible. '''Hannah 19Nov09 11:23pm'''

There is a typo in Exercise 5 of the new sheet. The two occurrences of ''n'' should be ''m''. '''Hannah 19Nov09 11:22pm'''