Literature

We mainly use the book "Introduction to Information Retrieval" by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, which is available online and as PDF here. 

Contact

In case you have questions, please contact Markus Rokicki.

Lectures and Dates

• Boolean retrieval    print version (27.10.2016)
• The term vocabulary & postings lists    print version (03.11.2016)
• Dictionaries & tolerant retrieval    print version (10.11.2016)
• Index construction    print version (17.11.2016)
• Scoring, term weighting, the vector space model    print version (24.11.2016)
• Evaluation & result summaries    print version (01.12.2016)
• Relevance feedback & query expansion    print version (08.12.2016)
• Text classification & Naive Bayes    print version (15.12.2016)
• Flat clustering    print version (12.01.2017)
• Link analysis    print version (19.01.2017)
• Web search basics    print version (26.01.2017 & 02.02.2017)

Exercises

• Exercise 01 (03.11.2016)
• Exercise 02 (10.11.2016)
• Exercise 03 (17.11.2016)
• Exercise 04 (24.11.2016)
• Exercise 05 (01.12.2016)
• Exercise 06 (08.12.2016)
• Exercise 07 (15.12.2016)
• Exercise 08 (12.01.2017)
• Exercise 09 (19.01.2017)
• Exercise 10 (26.01.2017)
• Exercise 11 (02.02.2017)

Solutions to the exercises are made available via Stud.IP.