Course in Information Retrieval

• General Information
• Announcements
• Lecturenotes
• Lab Project

General Information

Organization

• Lectures will take place in person, but have additionally been prerecorded. The videos can be accessed by following the lecturenotes below, or on the Webis youtube channel. [playlist]
• Lab and corresponding material consists of a project in which you program your own domain-specific information retrieval system.
• Examination will take place as written exam.
• Communication
  • Lecture website - materials and announcements will be uploaded on this website.
  • Email - important announcements will be sent out via mail.

Lecturenotes

• Information Retrieval » Introduction » Organization, Literature
  Pre-recorded: [video 1]
• Information Retrieval » Introduction » Retrieval Problems
  Pre-recorded: [video 2] [video 3] [video 4] [video 5] [video 6]
• (Hint Masterstudiengang Medizininformatik)
• Information Retrieval » Introduction » Architecture of a Search Engine
  In-person: [video 1] Pre-recorded: [video 7] [video 8] [video 9] [video 10] [video 11] [video 12] [video 13] [video 14]
  
  
• Information Retrieval » Evaluation » Laboratory Experiments
  In-person: [video 2] Pre-recorded: [video 30]
• Information Retrieval » Evaluation » Effectiveness Measures
  In-person: [video 3] Pre-recorded: [video 31] [video 32] [video 33]

Lab

The lab project consists of building and evaluating an information system for a specific domain. This entails data processing, implementing retrieval methods, and an analysis of the retrieval system.
Lab project material will be published here over the course of the semester.
Deliverables are to be handed in by mail to the lab supervisors and/or Tira.

Date	Title	Materials	Deliverables
15.04.2024	Lab Overview, Group Formation Milestone I Information Session	[slides] [sample topic file] [notebook]
22.04.2024	Milestone II information session	[slides]	Milestone I due Topic XML file (see example) via mail.
06.05.2024	Milestone III information session	[slides] [video]	Milestone II due Complete relevance annotations on Doccano.
27.05.2024	Project Q&A
01.07.2024	Wrap up Questions/Comments/Concerns		Milestone III due Improved Software submission on TIRA. Hand in report as PDF via mail.