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Information Retrieval

(in German: Information Retrieval )

Module-ID: FIN-INF-110307
Link: LSF
Responsibility: Andreas Nürnberger
Lecturer: Andreas Nürnberger
Classes:
  • Lecture Information Retrieval
  • Exercise Information Retrieval
 
Applicability in curriculum: - M.Sc. INF: Informatik
- M.Sc. INGINF: Informatik
- M.Sc. WIF: Informatik
- M.Sc. DKE: Applied Data Science
- M.Sc. DE: Methoden der Informatik
- M.Sc. VC: Computer Science

Abbreviation

IR

Credit Points

6

Semester

Winter

Term

ab 3.

Duration

1 Semester

Language

english

Level

Master

Intended learning outcomes:
Students can:

  1. Design and implement advanced index structures for heterogeneous data modalities (textual, images) leveraging platforms such as Apache Solr, Apache Lucene
  2. Execute comprehensive text data pipelines, encompassing tokenization, normalization, stemming/lemmatization, and semantic enrichment for downstream retrieval tasks.
  3. Integrate index construction with sophisticated pre-processing techniques and develop interactive, user-centric search interfaces.
  4. Critically assess and benchmark retrieval system effectiveness using standard IR evaluation metrics (e.g., MAP, NDCG, Precision@k)
  5. Translate foundational Information Retrieval (IR) theories into practice by architecting and deploying a functional search engine prototype.
  6. Learning and implementing a functional search engine prototype

Content:

  • Statistical properties of texts
  • Retrieval models and data structures
  • Relevance feedback
  • Evaluation
  • Structuring datasets (clustering, categorisation)
  • Structure and algorithms for web search
  • Interface design

Workload:
56h contact time + 124h self study

Pre-examination requirements: Type of examination: Teaching method / lecture hours per week (SWS):

Written exam. Requirements for exam participation will be announced in the first week of the course in class and online.

  • 2 SWS Lecture
  • 2 SWS Exercise class
Prerequisites according to examination regulations: Recommended prerequisites:

none

Media: Literature:

  • Introduction to Information Retrieval, C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Prentice-Hall, 1992.

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