Welcome to the Wiki of the course '''Information Retrieval''' in the winter term 2013/2014

The course is given by Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast and assisted by Björn Buchhold. It takes place every Tuesday from 4:15pm until 5:45pm in the Hörsaal HS036 in building 101. The first lecture is on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 and the last lecture is on Tuesday, February 11, 2014. There will be no lecture on Tuesday, December 24, 2012 and Tuesday, December 31, 2013 (christmas break) and on [TODO: some other date]. That is 14 lectures altogether.

The tutors for this course are Stephanie Embgen (s.embgen@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, login with your RZ user name and password).

• Here is the link to the Forum (for announcements and questions, you are automatically a member when you have logged into Daphne).

• Code style profiles for Eclipse: Java, C++.

• Short introductions to SVN and Vim and the installation of gtest (for C++ only) can be found here (in German).

• The topics of this course will be similar to those of the course Information Retrieval, WS 2012/2013 from last year. Here is all about the Exam from that course.

Lecture Slides, Video Recordings, Exercise Sheets, and Code

• Lecture 1, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 (Demo, Organizational, Inverted Index): Video Recording (Download), Slides, Exercise Sheet 1, Code from the lecture, Code design suggestion for ES1, Dataset for ES1 (961,327 abstracts about people).

• Lecture 2, Tuesday, October 29, 2013 (Ranking, Vector Space Model, Evaluation): Video Recording (Download), Slides, Exercise Sheet 2, TIP files for ES2, Table for your ranking results.

• Lecture 3, Tuesday, November 5, 2013 (Efficient List Intersection): Slides, Exercise Sheet 2, Code from the lecture, Table for your list intersection results.