Course in Advanced Information Retrieval

• General Information
• Announcements
• Lecturenotes
• Lab Project

General Information

Announcements

Organization

• Lectures will take place in person.
• Lab and corresponding material consists of a project in which you program your own domain-specific information retrieval system. We will have regular tutorial sessions from 16.10.2023 onwards.
• Examination consists of a written exam and a lab project. In the exam, a one sided handwritten DIN A4 sheet of paper is allowed as an aid. This sheet will be collected; please write your name on this sheet as well. A non-programmable calculator is also allowed.
• Communication
  • Discord - direct communication with teaching staff and annoucements will be posted here. Please email the teaching staff for a link to join.
  • Lecture website - materials and organisation annoucements will be uploaded on this website.
  • Email - important announcements will be sent out via mail.

Lecturenotes

Lecture material will be published here over the course of the semester.

• 09.10.2023 Introduction and Organisation
• 16.10.2023 Search Engine Architecture and Evaluation I
• 23.10.2023 Evaluation II
• 30.10.2023 Indexing
• 06.11.2023 Retrieval Models I
• 13.11.2023 Retrieval Models II
• 20.11.2023 --Skip--
• 27.11.2023 Retrieval Models III
• 04.12.2023 --Dies Academicus--
• 11.12.2023 Retrieval Models IV
• 18.12.2023 Queries
• 25.12.2023 --Winter Break--
• 01.12.2023 --Winter Break--
• 08.01.2024 Domain Specific Search
• 15.01.2024 Generative IR
• 22.01.2024 Exam Q&A
• 06.02.2024 Exam, start at 9:45, in HS 3 (Hörsaalgebäude)
• 26.03.2024 Rewrite exam (Nachklausur), start at 14:15, in S 102 (Seminargebäude)

Lab Project

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
16.10.2023	Lab Overview, Group Formation Milestone I Information Session	[slides] [sample topic file] [notebook]
23.10.2023	Milestone II information session	[slides]	Milestone I due Hand in as XML file (see example) via mail.
06.11.2023	Milestone III information session	[slides]	Milestone II due
20.11.2023	Project Q&A	[slides] [recording
27.11.2023	Milestone IV Information Session (1)	[slides]	Milestone III due
11.12.2023	Milestone IV Information Session (2)
22.01.2024	Wrap up Questions/Comments/Concerns		Milestone IV due