Welcome to the Wiki of the course '''Information Retrieval''' in the winter term 2012/2013

The course is given by Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast and takes place every Wednesday from 4:15pm until 5:45pm, in seminar room 00-010/14 in building 101. The first lecture is on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 and the last lecture is on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. There will be no lecture on Wednesday, December 26, 2012 and Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (christmas break) and on TODO. That is 14 lectures altogether.

The tutors for this course are Mirko Brodesser (mirko.brodesser@gmail.com), Eugen Sawin (esawin@gmail.com) and Jonas Sternisko (sternis@informatik.uni-freiburg.de). The administrator of the supporting systems (Daphne, SVN, Forum, Jenkins) is Axel Lehmann.

Important Links

• Here is the link to Daphne (our course management system).

• Here is the link to the Forum (for annoucements and questions).

• Here is the Wiki page of a similar lecture I have given three years ago: Search Engines, WS 2009/2010.

Lecture Slides, Video Recordings, Exercise Sheets, and Code

Remark about the video recordings: we have prepared videos in different formats, in particular: .m4v, .mp4, and .wmv. If you click on one of the links "Video recording" you get that format of which our script thinks that it best fits your device / operating system / browser. If you explicitly want a particular format, simply copy the link address and add the desired extension by hand.

• Lecture 1, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 (Introduction, Organizational, Inverted Index): Exercise Sheet 1, Code from the lecture + design suggestion for the exercise sheet, Example collection (100K sentences from Wikipedia).