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)

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.(1+5)

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)

5. Why query expansion is important? Discuss query expansion techniques with examples.(1+5)

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.

5. Why query expansion is important? Discuss query expansion techniques with examples.

6. Why Hits algorithm is used? Discuss its working with example.(2+4)

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.

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.(1+5)

9. Differentiate collaborative filtering from content based filtering? Discuss content based recommender system with its strengths and drawbacks.(2+4)

8. How text categorization is different from clustering? Explain nearest neighbor categorization algorithm.

10. Why TF-IDF weighting is important in information retrieval? Explain with suitable example.(6)

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.

11. How information extraction differs from information retrieval? Discuss role of XML in information extraction.(6)

12. Write short notes on:(3+3)

a) Latent Semantic Indexing

b) Spiders

11. How information extraction differs from information retrieval? Discuss role of XML in information extraction.