Information Retrieval
Formalia
- Targeted audience
- Angewandte Informatik Master with 3+1 hours per week and 6 credit points
- Komedia Master with 3+1 hours per week and 6 credit points
- ISE Master with 3+1 hours per week and 6 credit points
Dates
Lectures
Date | Time | Place |
| Thursday | 12:30 - 15:00 | LC/137 |
Tutorials
Date | Time | Place | Tutor |
| Thursday | 15:00 - 15:45 | LC/137 | Dr. Ahmet Aker |
Examination Dates
Oral Exam
| Period | Place |
|---|---|
| 19.03.2018 - 22.03.2018 | LF/135 |
As usual, you have to register at the Prüfungsamt for the exams. Normally, you have to do nothing else!
We will schedule your exam during the period specified above. The personal appointments for the oral exams will be announced at our Web site on the last Tuesday before the exam week
Only if (and only then!!!) you are not available on single days of the examination period, please send an email to our secretary Ms. Heise. Please observe the following guidelines:
- Do not mail us earlier than 4 weeks before, and no later than 2 weeks before the exam period.
- Most likely, exams will only take place from Monday-Wednesday, so requests for Thursday cannot be considered.
- You should be available full-day on at least one of these days - in case you are available for a half day only, we will try our best.
- In case you registered for 2 exams, both will be held together.
- In case you are not at all available in the above period, we will try to find a separate exam date for you. Only in this case, send an email directly to Prof. Fuhr, but not before January 15.
Emails not following the rules from above will not be answered (like those saying 'Please give me an appointment for my exam in ...', or emails not originating from an uni-due.de mail account)
Description
Course Topics
- Extended Models: Propositional logic, predicate logic, ontologies
- Search User Interfaces: Query Specification, Presentation of Search Results, Query Reformulation, Supporting the Search Process, Designing the Search Process
- IR tasks: Diversity Search, Opinion Retrieval, Contextual Search, Social Media IR, Cross-Language IR, Classification, Clustering
- Implementation of IR Systems: Architecture, data structures, algorithms
Lecture material
Books
- Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman: Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice. Addison-Wesley, 2009.
- R. Baeza-Yates, B. Ribeiro-Neto: Modern Information Retrieval. Addison Wesley.
- Marti A. Hearst: Search User Interfaces. Cambridge University Press. (2009)
- Some further IR books and course notes are linked here.
Literature on specific topics
- Models
- N. Fuhr (2014): Bridging Information Retrieval and Database
- Clustering
- N. Fuhr; M. Lechtenfeld; B. Stein; T. Gollub (2011): The Optimum Clustering Framework: Implementing the Cluster Hypothesis
Slides
Slides as well as sheets for the exercises can be obtained through ILIAS. For this please follow the following steps:
- Shibboleth Login -> Login with your university login information
- Scroll: Magazin -> Information Systems -> 2017 SS Information Retrieval
- Click the button "Beitreten"
- Click the menu item "Folien/Slides"
Exercises
The goal of these exercises is, that students learn the usage of the concepts, presented in this lecture.
The exercises take place every two weeks. For the exact dates please revisit this website.
Exercise papers
The sheets for the exercises can be obtained through ILIAS.