Course in Information Retrieval

• General Information
• Announcements
• Lecturenotes
• Lab Project
• Report

General Information

Announcements

• The lecture on January 14th is canceled due to illness.

Lecturenotes

• Information Retrieval » Introduction » Organization, Literature
• Information Retrieval » Introduction » Retrieval Problems
• Information Retrieval » Introduction » Architecture of a Search Engine
  
  
• Information Retrieval » Evaluation » Laboratory Experiments
• Information Retrieval » Evaluation » Performance Measures
• Information Retrieval » Evaluation » Training and Testing
  
  
• Information Retrieval » Retrieval Models » Overview of Retrieval Models
• Information Retrieval » Retrieval Models » Empirical Models
• Machine Learning » Statistical Learning » Probability Basics
• Machine Learning » Statistical Learning » Bayes Classificatrion
• Information Retrieval » Retrieval Models » Probabilistic Models
• Information Retrieval » Retrieval Models » Algebraic Models
• Information Retrieval » Retrieval Models » Generative Models

Lab Project

The lab consists of building and evaluating an information system for a specific domain. This entails related work search, data acquisition, data cleansing, indexing, selection and implementation of suitable retrieval models, development of a UI, evaluation of search quality, submission of a written report and well-documented source code, and a final presentation.

Successful participation in the lab project is a prerequisite to complete the module.

Lab classes

• 2019-10-15. Introduction. [slides] [shared task]
• 2019-10-29. Literature Research, Oral Presentations & Scientific Writing. [slides]
• 2019-11-05. Docker. [slides]
• 2019-11-12. Short Project Presentations & Brainstorming Session.
  Important: there will be no lecture on 12.11., instead, the lab session will take place from 11:15 - 12:45
  Each group should give a short (3-5 Minutes) outline of their planned project. It is not required to give a fully detailed report, rather a few short talking points to discuss in a brainstorming later.
• 2019-12-17. Demo Session.
  Each group should give a short (3-5 Minutes) demo of their prototype. Also, each group should register for the shared task. [Registration]
• 2020-01-21. Project Presentations
  Final presentations of the projects. Each group has 30 minutes. Time slots will be assigned in the session on 2019-12-17.
• 2020-01-28. Project Presentations
  
• 2020-02-04. Project Presentations
  
• 2020-02-11. Project Presentations. Starting 11:00 in Room P801
  
• 2020-02-12. Project Presentations Starting 11:00 in Room P801
  

Material

• Task 1
  • Literature: [Ajjour et al. 2019], [Wachsmuth et al. 2017], [Potthast et al. 2019]
  • Dataset: [Args.me Corpus]
  • Evaluation: [Topic Dataset], [Partial Judgements]
• Task 2
  • Literature [Schildwächter et al. 2019], [Panchenko et al. 2019], [Bondarenko et al. 2019]
  • Data [Chatnoir API]
  • Evaluation [Topic Dataset]

Lab Report

A written report is expected at the end of the semester. Detailed information can be found below.

• Language: English or German
• Structure:
  1. Introduction
  2. Related Work
  3. Argument Retrieval Model(s) (Description of your contribution)
  4. Evaluation
  5. Discussion and Conclusion
• Style: please use Springer LNCS as template for your report [Overleaf Template] [Word Template] [Latex Template]
• Length: minimum 10 pages
• Supplementary Material:
  • your source code (i.e. a link to your git repository)
  • a working deployment of your model on the Tira platform
• Due Date: 2019-02-29