Information Retrieval - Unit Wise Questions
1. How IR in web search is different from other IR systems? Discuss IR architecture with suitable diagram.(2+4)
1. How IR in web search is different from other IR systems? Discuss IR architecture with suitable example.
2. Assume that document Space is defined by four terms: Network, CSIT, Nepal, TU, and Graduate.
And we have three documents containing the following terms:
Doc1: CSIT Nepal
Doc2: TU CSIT
Doc3: CSIT TU Nepal
If the Query is "CSIT Nepal", find top 2 document retrieved by Boolean space model.(6)
3. What is meant by stop word removal? Explain text normalization with suitable example.(1+5)
2. Assume that document space is defined by four terms: Network, CSIT, Nepal, TU and Graduate. And we have three documents containing the following terms:
Doc1: CSIT Nepal
Doc2: TU CSIT
Doc3: CSIT TU Nepal
If the query is "CSIT NEPAL", find top 2 documents retrieved by Boolean space model
3. What is meant by stop word removal? Explain text normalization with suitable example.
4. Suppose that table below list all the documents retrieved by an algorithm. If total number of relevant documents is 6, calculate the value of recall, precision, and F-score.(6)
4. Suppose the table given below lists all the documents retrieved by an algorithm. If total number of relevant documents is 6, calculate the value of recall, precision, and F-score.
| sn | Doc ID | relevant |
| 1 | D1 | no |
| 2 | D2 | no |
| 3 | D3 | yes |
| 4 | D4 | no |
| 5 | D5 | yes |
| 6 | D6 | yes |
| 7 | D7 | no |
| 8 | D8 | no |
| 9 | D9 | yes |
5. Why query expansion is important? Discuss query expansion techniques with examples.(1+5)
6. Why Hits algorithm is used? Discuss its working with example.(2+4)
5. Why query expansion is important? Discuss query expansion techniques with examples.
7. How Bots are different from spiders? Describe simple and multithreded spidering algorithm.(1+5)
6. Why Hits algorithm is used? Discuss its working with example.
8. How text categorization is different from clustering? Explain nearest neighbor categorization algorithm.(1+5)
7. How Bots are different from spiders? Describe simple and multithreded spidering algorithm.
8. How text categorization is different from clustering? Explain nearest neighbor categorization algorithm.
9. Differentiate collaborative filtering from content based filtering? Discuss content based recommender system with its strengths and drawbacks.(2+4)
9. Differentiate collaborative filtering from content based filtering? Discuss content based recommender system with its strengths and drawbacks
10. Why TF-IDF weighting is important in information retrieval? Explain with suitable example.(6)
11. How information extraction differs from information retrieval? Discuss role of XML in information extraction.(6)
10. Why TF-IDF weighting is important in information retrieval? Explain with suitable example.
11. How information extraction differs from information retrieval? Discuss role of XML in information extraction.
12. Write short notes on:(3+3)
a) Latent Semantic Indexing
b) Spiders