Course in Information Retrieval

General Information

Lecturer Dr. Harry Scells
Teaching Assistants Lukas Gienapp, Christopher Akiki
Workload 2 SWS Lecture, 1 SWS Exercises
Lecture Monday, 11:15 - 12:45, HS 19
Exercise Monday, 13:15 - 14:00, HS 19
Contact via email or office hours
Exam TBD.

Announcements

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. We will have regular tutorial sessions from April 4th on.
  • Examination consists of a written exam, a written report, and a 15 minute talk.
  • Communication
    • Lecture website - materials and announcements will be uploaded on this website.
    • Email - important announcements will be sent out via mail.

Lecturenotes

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.

Date Title Description Materials Deliverables
XX.XX.2023 Session 1
  • Introduction & Lab Setup
  • Group Formation
XX.XX.2023 Session 1
  • Introduction & Lab Setup
  • Group Formation
Topic Definitions
XX.XX.2023 Session 1
  • Introduction & Lab Setup
  • Group Formation
Run Submission
XX.XX.2023 Session X
  • ...
  • ...
Relevance Annotations
XX.XX.2023 Session 1
  • Introduction & Lab Setup
  • Group Formation
Project Presentations