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= Welcome to the Wiki of the course "Information Retrieval" in the winter term 2017/2018 =

The course is given by [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast]] and assisted by [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/korzen|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, Danny Stoll and Daniel Tischner.
The administrator of the supporting systems (Daphne, SVN, Forum, Jenkins) is [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/lehmann|Axel Lehmann]].

== Important Links ==

 * Our course management system [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ws1718/InformationRetrieval/|Daphne]] (login with your RZ user name and password).
 * The [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=740|Forum]] for announcements and questions (you are automatically a member when you have logged into Daphne).
 * Our [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/CodingStandards/svn|CodingStandards]] for C++, Java and Python3.
 * Code style formatter profiles for Eclipse: [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/CodingStandards/svn/java/lib/eclipse-java-codestyle-formatter-profile.xml|Java]], [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/CodingStandards/svn/cpp/eclipse-cpp-codestyle-formatter-profile.xml|C++]].
 * Information about Subversion (SVN) can be found [[SVN|here (in german)]] and [[SVNEnglish|here (in english)]]; about some editors (including Vim) [[Editoren|here (in german)]]; and about the installation of gtest (for C++ only) [[ProgrammierenCplusplusSS2016/Gtest|here (in english)]]. 
 * The topics of this course will be similar (but not identical) to those of the courses [[InformationRetrievalWS1213|Information Retrieval WS 12/13]], [[InformationRetrievalWS1314|Information Retrieval WS 13/14]], [[InformationRetrievalWS1516|Information Retrieval WS 15/16]] and [[InformationRetrievalWS1617|Information Retrieval WS 16/17]].
 * The exams from the previous years: [[InformationRetrievalWS1213/Exam|WS 12/13]], [[InformationRetrievalWS1314/Exam|WS 13/14]], [[InformationRetrievalWS1516/Exam|WS 15/16]], [[InformationRetrievalWS1617/Exam|WS 16/17]].
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== Lecture Slides, Video Recordings, Exercise Sheets, and Code ==

 * Lecture 1, Tuesday, October 17, 2017 (Introduction, Inverted Index)