Information Retrieval for Syrian Exchange Students
On this page you will find some information about the lecture "Information Retrieval", which will be hold for the Syrian exchange students in winter term 2012/2013 by Tatiana Gossen. This page will be updated during the course.
Information Retrieval (IR) is about information search in not or less structured datasets like text or multimedia databases. Examples for applications are internet search engines, digital libaries and multimedia archives like image or video databases. In this course you will be introduced into basic IR-concepts and special application areas will be illustrated. Topics covered include:
- Document pre-processing
- Indexing
- IR models
- Ranking and relevance feedback
- Human Computer Interaction
- Evaluation
- Web Search
Dates and Rooms
- First written exam at 11. February 2013, 9:00am, Building 29, Room K058
- Second written exam at 04. March 2013, 9:00am, Building 29, Room K058
| Event | Time | Starting | Room |
| Lecture | Thursday 09:00 - 11:00 | 18.10.2012 | G29-E037 |
| Exercise | Thursday 11:00 - 13:00 | 18.10.2012 | G29-427 |
Teaching Staff
If you have any questions about the lectures or the exercises feel free to contact us (if possible via E-Mail).
- Tatiana Gossen (Lecture)
email: tatiana.gossen@ovgu.de - Thomas Low (Exercise)
email: thomas.low@ovgu.de
Organization
There will be weekly lectures and exercise classes. For the latter, exercise sheets will be published one week in advance. These are required to be prepared in advance by all students. In the beginning of the lesson, every student must indicate which assignments he has prepared (voting). Based on this, solutions will be presented and discussed by the students.
Additional to these theoretical exercises there will be practical programming assignments, which will have to be sent in via mail and which will be reviewed. These tasks will be solved by student groups of max. 3 students. The appointed date will be published for each assignment. Normally you will have about two weeks to work on it.
There will be a written exam at the end of the course. Prerequisites for participating in the exam are:
- preparing at least 2/3 of all exercises
- oral presentation of at least two solutions
Material
During the course you will find slides, exercise sheets and additional material published here.
Slides
- Course Information + Introduction to IR
- Document Pre-Processing
- Indexing
- The Vector Space Model
- Probabilistic information retrieval
- Evaluation
- Web Search & Link Analysis
- Web Search - Crawling
- Search User Interfaces
Exercise sheets
- Assignment Sheet 1
- Assignment Sheet 2
- Assignment Sheet 3
- Assignment Sheet 4
- Assignment Sheet 5
- Assignment Sheet 6
- Assignment Sheet 7
- Assignment Sheet 8
- Assignment Sheet 9
- Assignment Sheet 10 (due by 24. January 2013)
Additional Material
- Programming Assignments (due by 25. January 2013)
- Scoring of Programming Assignments
- Reuters.zip (UPDATE: XML Format)
- Reuters.zip
Literature
- Introduction to Information Retrieval, C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze, Cambridge University Press, 2008. (Online-Version)
- Search User Interfaces, Marti Hearst, Cambridge University Press, 2009. (Online-Version)
- Modern Information Retrieval, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribiero-Neto, Addison Wesley, 1999.
- Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.
- Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Prentice-Hall, 1992.
- Soft Computing in Information Retrieval, Fabio Crestani and Gabriella Pasi, Physica Verlag, 2000.