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732A81 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1F) · Statistik

Text Mining

Active · next start HT 2026

84%

passed the latest regular sitting

PRA1 · 17 Jan 2026 · 19 students

67%

passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years

PRA1 · 72 students

Unusually easy in 2025/26

84% passed the ordinary exam in 2025/26 (19 students), against 60% on average in earlier years (53 students).

Hand-in or lab

PRA1 Examination

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Main rounds

67% passed · 72 students

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  • 54%13
  • 61%23
  • 65%17

Later rounds

75% passed · 61 students

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  • Pass a later round: 75% (61 students), compared with 67% (72 students) on the ordinary exam
  • Get B or A: 38% (133 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.

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Other modules

Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.

Hand-in or lab

LAB1 Laboratory work

  • P
  • F

Main rounds

78% passed · 117 students

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  • 62%26

Later rounds

62% passed · 21 students

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  • Pass a later round: 62% (21 students), compared with 78% (117 students) on the ordinary exam
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About the course

Aim

After completing the course, the student shall be able to

  • implement text mining methods and apply them to practical problems
  • analyze and summarize results from text mining experiments
  • identify, formulate and solve problems within the area of text mining
  • clearly present and discuss the conclusions of a project work

Content

The course covers the following methods within the area of text mining:

  • information retrieval
  • basic methods in language technology
  • predictive modeling, in particular text classification
  • text clustering and theme modeling
  • information extraction
  • validation methods

In addition, various applications of text mining as well as program libraries and data used in the field are treated.

Examiner
Marcel Bollmann
Main field of study
Statistik
Syllabus on Studieinfo ↗