Welcome to the Wiki of the course "Information Retrieval" in the winter term 2018/2019
The course is given by Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast and assisted by Claudius Korzen. The course will be based on the video recordings from the course Information Retrieval WS17/18. There will be an introductory in-class lecture on Tuesday, 16th October 2018 from 2:15pm until 3:45pm in seminar room 00-010/14 in building 101. There will be 14 lectures and 13 exercise sheets altogether.
The tutors for this course are Daniel Bindemann, Patrick Brosi, Niklas Schnelle, N/A and N/A. The administrator of the supporting systems (Daphne, SVN, Forum, Jenkins) is Axel Lehmann.
Important Links
Our course management system Daphne (login with your RZ user name and password).
The forum for announcements and questions.
The manual for how to ask questions on the forum.
Our Points scheme for the exercises.
Our CodingStandards for C++, Java and Python 3.
Information about Subversion (SVN) can be found here (in german) and here (in english); about some editors (including Vim) here (in german); and about the installation of gtest (for C++ only) here (in english).
The courses from previous semesters: Information Retrieval WS 17/18, Information Retrieval WS 16/17, Information Retrieval WS 15/16, Information Retrieval WS 13/14, Information Retrieval WS 12/13.
The exams from previous semesters: WS 17/18, WS 16/17, WS 15/16, WS 13/14, WS 12/13.
Here you can download our Linux Image (for Virtualbox or VMWare).
Lecture Slides, Video Recordings, Exercise Sheets, and Code
Lecture 1, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 (Introduction, Inverted Index, Zipf's Law): Video Recording (Download), Slides, Code from the lecture (+ equivalent code in Java and C++), Exercise Sheet 1, TIP file, Dataset for ES1 (189,897 movies with title + description).