This lecture provides an introduction to techniques for infromation retrieval and mining in text and multimedia  content.

• Text indexing, Stemming, Tokenization, Inverted Index, BOW
• Audio indexing: MFCCs, Rhythmpatterns, Statistical Spectrum Descriptors
• Image Indexing:  Color histograms, Edge histograms, Texture
• Cross-modal Aspects: Image characteristics of text, Text in audio and images,...
• Boolean Retrieval, Vector Space Model, Binary-Independence-Retrieval-Modell, Statistical language models
• Evaluation

ECTS/Effort:

Lectures: 7 sessions @ 2h: 14h

Exercises:

     Ex1: 20h

     Ex2: 15h

     EX3: 10h

Exam Preparation: 15h

Exam: 1h

SUM: 75h