Q.1
14 Marks(a)
Discuss Information Retrieval with its applications.
(b)
Discuss: stop words and tokenization.
(c)
Explain working of naive bayes models.
Gujarat Technological UniversitySummer 2026 examination
GTU 3170718 Information Retrieval (IR) Summer 2026 Question Paper & PDF
B.E. · Computer Engineering · Semester 7 · Subject code 3170718
- Total
- 70 marks
- To pass
- 23 marks (33%)
- Duration
- 2.5 Hours 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM
- Questions
- 5 with internal choice
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Q.2
14 Marks(a)
Describe Zipf's Law.
(b)
Discuss: stemming and phrases.
(c)
Differentiate Structured, Unstructured and Semi- Structured text.
OR
(c)
What is Index compression? Explain lexicon compression and postings lists compression.
Q.3
14 Marks(a)
Explain n-gram indexes.
(b)
Write a short note on cosine measure.
(c)
Briefly discuss vector space retrieval model with example.
OR
(a)
Differentiate between Inverted Index and Forward Index
(b)
Discuss kernel method in short.
(c)
Explain the retrieval performance evaluation.
Q.4
14 Marks(a)
Define the terms: TF-IDF
(b)
Write the differences between classification and clustering.
(c)
Briefly discuss working of k nearest neighbour with the help of appropriate example.
OR
(a)
Write Short notes on Support vector machine classifiers.
(b)
Discuss spam filtering.
(c)
Discuss types of hierarchical clustering method.
Q.5
14 Marks(a)
What is the need of Filtering against spamming?
(b)
Describe Cross language information retrieval.
(c)
Explain hierarchical agglomerative clustering technique with appropriate example.
OR
(a)
Discuss: PageRank and HITS
(b)
Write a short note on semantic web.
(c)
Explain XML retrieval? Also write down the major challenges in XML retrieval?
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Official Gujarat Technological University (GTU) examination paper for Information Retrieval (IR) (Summer 2026, B.E. · Computer Engineering, Sem 7). Features complete 70-mark regular & remedial examination pattern, official marking distribution across all 5 questions, and direct 1-click official PDF download.
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