Course in Information Retrieval

• General Information
• Announcements
• Lecturenotes
• Lab Project

General Information

Announcements

• Lecture and Lab will take place online throughout the semester.

Organization

• Lectures are prerecorded. The videos can be accessed by following the lecturenotes below, or on the Webis youtube channel. [playlist]
• Online sessions will take place in the form of live Q&A sessions on BigBlueButton. These sessions are planned semi-regularly, each date will be announced on the course website.
• Lab material consists of biweekly programming exercises in the form of Jupyter notebooks.
• Examination will take place at the end of the semester as written online exam. Date is to be announced.
• Communication
  • Lecture website - materials and announcements will be uploaded on this website.
  • Discord - there is a dedicated Discord server for this lecture to ask questions and engage in discussion. Check your mails for an access code. Please join the server and choose a Nickname such that we can identify you (at least surname).
  • Email - important announcements will be sent out via mail.

Lecturenotes

• Information Retrieval » Introduction » Organization, Literature [video 1]

Lab

The lab will be conducted as a series of exercises to give a hands-on experience for the concepts taught in the lecture. Each lecture block will be accompanied by a Jupyter notebook, which implements a component of a basic search engine.
Exercises will be published here every two weeks, with the solution following one week later. We will not collect & grade your exercise solutions, and participation in lab is not a prerequisite to the exam.

Lab Exercises

• 00 - Getting Started [download]
• 01 - Introduction to Python [view] [download]
• 02 - Introduction to Jupyter [view] [download]