#acl All:read = Welcome to the Wiki of the course "Information Retrieval" in the winter term 2021/2022 = {{{ #!html

This course will be conducted with the materials from the WS 19/20 and live Q&A sessions every Tuesday, please read on.

}}} The mode of presentation for this course was changed on short notice because [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast]] was elected as member of the directorate of the faculty last Thursday. This job is a lot of work and comes with a reduction of the teaching load. Prof. Bast therefore cannot conduct the course as originally planned. There was a ZOOM meeting on Tuesday, 19.10.2021, where we discussed possible alternatives. 29 students attended. Here is the current status quo: 0. If you want to take the course this semester under the following conditions, you should register on Daphne: https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ws2122/InformationRetrieval . 1. The complete materials (recordings, slides, exercises, code) from the WS 19/20 will be used, with the possible exception of Lecture 13 (this is not yet decided). 2. There will be a Q&A session every Tuesday at 14:15 with Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast via ZOOM. The link to the meeting is: https://uni-freiburg.zoom.us/j/63418599436 . The password is ir-ws2122 . These sessions will not be recorded. The sessions will take as long as you have questions, but no longer than until 15:45 . 3. Before the Q&A session, you should have studied the respective material (slides and recording) and started working on the exercise sheet. In the Q&A session on 26.11.2021, we will talk about Lecture 1 and Exercise Sheet 1. At the very latest, start on the weekend. 4. The deadline for the exercise sheets is Friday at 12:00. The deadline for the first exercise sheet is 22.10.2021. You should submit your solution in a subfolder ''sheet-dd'', where 'dd' is the number of the sheet (01 for the first sheet). After the deadline, you can't submit to that folder anymore. Until that deadline, you can submit as often as you want. 5. Familiarize yourself with the SVN as soon as possible, ideally right NOW. You find the link to your SVN repository once you registered for the course on Daphne. Here are some basic instruction for how SVN works: https://ad-wiki.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/teaching/SVNEnglish. Note that for the purposes of this course, SVN is just as good as Git. 5. We have set up a forum for announcements and questions: https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=1177 . Please ask all your questions there and not by sending email (unless it is something very confidential). 6. We have not yet determined whether there will be tutors for the exercise sheets and whether they will be graded. More about that soon on this Wiki page. Whatever we decide, the result will be that the exercise sheets are the most important part of the course and you should work on them seriously. You can skip a few exercises now and then, but not too many. You learn the material from the course only by applying and thinking about it yourself. 7. If you don't want to take the course this semester, but you want to work with us anyway: We offer many exciting projects and theses. There are no particular deadlines, you can start anytime. The procedure is described here: https://ad-wiki.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/teaching/BachelorAndMasterProjectsAndTheses . The list of topics is not up to date. There are always topics available.