Self-paced course

Information Service Engineering

Offered by Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Dr. Maria Koutraki

Learning Material

Please feel free to have a look at these additional learning materials:

Slides

You can download the slides to the Lecture Overview here: Download PDF

You can find a download link for the slides of each video on the video's page.
For your convenience we offer an archive of this week's slides here: Download zip

Text Corpus for Practical Exercises

In the first week of the course, we will have several practical exercises you can follow along.
For all of the exercises we use the Beethovencorpus.csv and we highly recommend you to download the file. It will be used in the video tutorials and in several week 1 quizzes.
You can download it here: Beethovencorpus.csv

See also these books

The books mentioned here are additional material and not required to follow and understand the course. They refer to the entire course, not only for week 1.

Natural Language Processing:

  • D. Jurafsky, J.H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 2nd ed. Pearson Int., 2009.

Linked Data Engineering:

  • S. Hitzler, M. Krötzsch, S. Rudolph, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies, Chapman / Hall, 2009.
  • T. Heath, Ch. Bitzer, Linked Data - Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space, Morgan & Claypool, 2001.

Information Retrieval:
-R. Baeza-Yates, B. Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, 2nd ed., Addison Wesley, 2010.