Welcome to the Wiki of the course "Information Retrieval" in the winter term 2021/2022

This course was cancelled on short notice, please read on for possible alternativey

This course was cancelled on short notice because 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.

We are really sorry for the short notice. Here are two things we can offer as a replacement:

1. Exams for this lecture take place every semester anyway (for all those who couldn't take or failed the exam in previous semesters). The complete materials for the course are online, here is the latest version: https://ad-wiki.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/teaching/InformationRetrievalWS1920 . So if you want, you can study the materials (and do the exercises) yourself. We only recommend this for students who are good with self-organization. If there is enough interest, we can also offer weekly QA sessions. We have set up a forum for questions: https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=1177.

For those of you who are interested in this mode, there is a ZOOM meeting on Tuesday, 19.10.2021 at 14:15 (the time of the first lecture), where we can discuss this and any questions related to this. The link to the meeting is: https://uni-freiburg.zoom.us/j/63418599436 . The password is ir-ws2121 .

2. 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. And since our course was cancelled this winter semester, we will be ready to take on more students than usual.