Information Retrieval

By completing the course, students will get to know the important information retrieval tasks, e.g.,Web search and recommendation. The participants will understand the conceptual requirements of specific retrieval tasks and be able to devise retrieval approaches consisting of suitable data structures and algorithms to address these tasks. The participants will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of retrieval approaches and to implement suitable retrieval approaches to solve complex practical information retrieval problems.

Workload: 4 SWS (2 Lecture / 2 Exercise), 6 ECTS