252-0341-01L  Information Retrieval

SemesterAutumn Semester 2014
LecturersT. Hofmann
Periodicityyearly recurring course
Language of instructionEnglish


AbstractIntroduction to information retrieval with a focus on text documents and images. Main topics comprise extraction of characteristic features from documents, index structures, retrieval models, search algorithms, benchmarking, and feedback mechanisms. Searching the web, images and XML collections demonstrate recent applications of information retrieval and their implementation.
ObjectiveIn depth understanding of managing, indexing, and retrieving documents with text, image and XML content. Knowledge about basic search algorithms on the web, benchmarking of search algorithms, and relevance feedback methods.