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

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This course was cancelled 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.

We are really sorry for the short notice. Here are some alternatives. If you are interested, please read carefully.

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.

2. You still have to do the exercises. The typical mode would be that you hand in the exercises, you get points for them, and you have to reach 50% in the end to get the "Studienleistung". An alternative mode would be that you seriously work on at least 80% of the exercises (counted in terms of the number of reachable points divided by the maximum number of points) and you provide a written statement in the end that you did so. We should decide on one of these two modes in our ZOOM meeting today (see below).

2. If you are interested in this pursuing the course in this way, please register for the course on Daphne: https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ws2122/InformationRetrieval .

3. For any questions related to this, we have set up a forum for announcements and questions: https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=1177 . Please read what has already been written there. And please ask all your questions there and not by sending email (unless it is something very confidential).

4. There is a ZOOM meeting TODAY (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-ws2122 . This meeting will not be recorded.

5. 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.