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= Welcome to the Wiki of the course '''Information Retrieval''' in the winter term 2015/2016 =

The course is given by [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast]] and assisted by [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/haussmann|Elmar Haußmann]]. It takes place every Tuesday from 4:15pm until 5:45pm in the seminar room SR 01-016/018 in building 101. The first lecture is on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 and the last lecture is on Tuesday, February 9, 2016. There will be no lecture on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 and Tuesday, January 5, 2016 (christmas break) and on [TODO: some other day which is yet to be selected]. That is 14 lectures altogether.

The tutors for this course are Simon Weidner (weidnersimon@gmx.de), NN1 and NN2. The administrator of the supporting systems (Daphne, SVN, Forum, Jenkins) is [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/lehmann|Axel Lehmann]].

== Important Links ==

 * Here is the link to [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ws1516/InformationRetrieval/|Daphne]] (our course management system, login with your RZ user name and password).
 * Here is the link to the [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=425|Forum]] (for announcements and questions, you are automatically a member when you have logged into Daphne).
 * Code style profiles for Eclipse: [[attachment:InformationRetrievalWS1314/Eclipse Java Code Style Profile|Java]], [[attachment:InformationRetrievalWS1314/Eclipse C++ Code Style Profile|C++]].
 * Short introductions to SVN and Vim and the installation of gtest (for C++ only) can be found [[AlgoDatSS2013|here]] (in German). 
 * The topics of this course will be similar (but not identical) to those of the courses [[InformationRetrievalWS1213|Information Retrieval WS 2012/2013]] and [[InformationRetrievalWS1314|Information Retrieval WS 2013/2014]].
 * Here is information about the exams from previous years: [[InformationRetrievalWS1213/Exam|WS 12/13]], [[InformationRetrievalWS1314/Exam|WS 13/14]].