Our group includes PostDocs, PhD students, and student assistants, and is headed by Prof. Felix Naumann. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Felix Naumann.
For bachelor students we offer German lectures on database systems in addition to paper- or project-oriented seminars. Within a one-year bachelor project, students finalize their studies in cooperation with external partners. For master students we offer courses on information integration, data profiling, and information retrieval enhanced by specialized seminars, master projects and we advise master theses.
Most of our research is conducted in the context of larger research projects, in collaboration across students, across groups, and across universities. We strive to make available most of our datasets and source code.
Information Retrieval: Indexing, Retrieval Models, Querying, Evaluation
Web Search: Crawling, Link Analysis, Social Search, Multimedia Search
Grading
30% Midterm Exam
70% Final Exam
Completion of at least 9 out of 10 homework assignments on time is a requirement for participation in the final exam. Homework assignments should be worked on in groups of three.
Resources
The slides and assignments can be found in the internal area.
Syllabus
The lecture usually takes place on Mondays, 13:30 to 15:00 in D-E 9/10
The exercises usually take place on Wednesday, 13:30 to 15:00 in D-E 9/10
Date
Topic
7.4.14
Introduction, Architecture
10.4.14
Indexing 16:00 (after student assembly)
14.4.14
Cancelled
21.4.14
Public Holiday
28.4.14
Retrieval Models I
5.5.14
Retrieval Models II
12.5.14
Querying
19.5.14
Evaluation
26.5.14
Midterm Exam
2.6.14
Web Search
9.6.14
Public Holiday
16.6.14
Crawling
23.6.14
Link Analysis
30.6.14
Social Search
7.7.14
Multimedia Search
14.7.14
Summary
Textbooks
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice by W. Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman
Modern Information Retrieval by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
An Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze
Information Retrieval by Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen
