Information Retrieval - Question paper 2074
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Institute of Science and
Technology
2074
Computer Science and Information Technology(CSC413)
(Information Retrieval)
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Pass Marks: 24
Time: 3 hours
Attempt any ten questions.
1. How IR in web search is different from other IR systems? Discuss IR architecture with suitable example.
2+4 Marks
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
6 Marks
3. What is meant by stop word removal? Explain text normalization with suitable example.
1+5 Marks
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 |
6 Marks
5. Why query expansion is important? Discuss query expansion techniques with examples.
1+5 Marks
7. How Bots are different from spiders? Describe simple and multithreded spidering algorithm.
1+5 Marks
8. How text categorization is different from clustering? Explain nearest neighbor categorization algorithm.
1+5 Marks
9. Differentiate collaborative filtering from content based filtering? Discuss content based recommender system with its strengths and drawbacks
2+4 Marks
10. Why TF-IDF weighting is important in information retrieval? Explain with suitable example.
6 Marks
11. How information extraction differs from information retrieval? Discuss role of XML in information extraction.
6 Marks