Foundations of Information Retrieval

The lecture gives an introduction to Web Information Retrieval with particular emphasis on the algorithms and technologies used in the modern search engines.
The module covers an introduction to the traditional text IR, including Boolean retrieval, vector space model as well as tolerant retrieval. Afterwards, the technical basics of Web IR are discussed, starting with the Web size estimation and duplicate detection followed by the link analysis and crawling. This leads on to the study of the modern search engine evaluation methods and various test collections. Finally, applications of classification and clustering in the IR domain are discussed. The theoretical basis is illustrated by the examples of the modern search systems, such as Google, Altavista, Clusty, etc.

Die Lehrveranstaltung diskutiert Algorithmen, Strukturen und innovative Systeme, die im Rahmen des World Wide Web relevant sind bzw. durch das World Wide Web möglich geworden sind. Kernpunkte der Lehrveranstaltung sind Web-Suche (Web Crawling, Text Indexing, Ranking Mechanismen), Analyse und Struktur des World Wide Web, Datenmanagement (Suche, Topologien, Systeme), sowie weitere aktuelle Themen.

Recommended Literature:

Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008.

Participants:

Computer science students (recommended from the 3. semester) and ITIS students.

Contact:

Elena Demidova

 Language:

English

 Lecture Dates

The lecture and exercise sessions in WS 2012/2013 take place in Multimedia-Room, Appelstr. 4, Thursday 11:30 - ca. 14:00.

Transmission URL for the ITIS students located outside Hannover:

URL: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/foundations_of_ir_2012/
Password: please request via email from Elena Demidova

The deadline for the transmission requests for ITIS students in WS 2012/2013 is 17.10.12 at 5:00 p.m.

The lectures will not be recorded.

Exam in WS 2012/2013

The results of the exam are available in Appelstr. 4, 2 floor!

The exam in WS 2012/2013 will take place on the 11th of March 2013, in the room MZ1 (Building 3408, Appelstrasse 9a) Location finder.

The room will be open from: 09:15
Begin of the exam:  09:30
Exam duration: 90 minutes
Note: The only allowed material is a non-programmable calculator.

Exam-related dates in WS 2012/2013

• Q&A session: 28.02.13, 14:00, Appelstrasse 9a, room 1514
• Post-exam review: 28.03.13, 14:00,  Appelstrasse 9a, room 1514

Lecture notes:

Please find the lecture notes for WS 2012/2013 here: WS 2012/2013.

Archiv / Archive of the lecture "Technologien für das Internet I" (in German only): WS 2011/2012, WS 2010/11, WS 2009/2010