Welcome to the Wiki of the course "Information Retrieval" in the winter term 2017/2018
The course is given by Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast and assisted by Claudius Korzen. It takes place every Tuesday from 2:15pm until 3:45pm in seminar room 00-010/14 in building 101. The first lecture is on Tuesday, 17 October 2017 and the last lecture is on Tuesday, 6 February 2018. There will be no lecture on Tuesday, 31 October 2017 (Reformationstag), and on Tuesday, 26 December 2017 and on Tuesday, 2 January 2018 (christmas break). This is 14 lectures altogether.
The tutors for this course are Patrick Brosi, Johannes Kalmbach, Natalie Prange, Simon Selg and Danny Stoll. 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++ (add .xml to file name).
Short introductions to SVN and Vim and the installation of gtest (for C++ only) can be found here (in German) and for the SVN now also here (in English).
The topics of this course will be similar (but not identical) to those of the courses Information Retrieval WS 2012/2013, Information Retrieval WS 2013/2014, Information Retrieval WS 2015/2016 and Information Retrieval WS 2016/2017.
Here is information about the exams from previous years: WS 12/13, WS 13/14, WS 15/16, WS 16/17.
Lecture Slides, Video Recordings, Exercise Sheets, and Code
- Lecture 1, Tuesday, October 17, 2017 (Introduction, Inverted Index, Zipf's Law)