Welcome to the Wiki of the course "Information Retrieval" in the winter term 2018/2019
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 12/13, WS 13/14, WS 15/16, WS 16/17, WS 17/18.
Here you can download our Linux Image (for Virtualbox or VMWare).
Livestream of the lectures (available shortly before each lecture).
Lecture Slides, Video Recordings, Exercise Sheets, and Code
For visitors from outside the University of Freiburg: You can freely access all the course materials below, except the solutions, by replacing /svn/ by /svn-public/ in the URL.
- Lecture 1, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 (Introduction, Inverted Index, Zipf's Law)