Q.1
14 Marks(a)
Explain the nature of unstructured and semi-structured text.
(b)
What is inverted index and Boolean queries in IR?
(c)
What is Index compression? Explain lexicon compression and postings lists compression.
Gujarat Technological UniversityWinter 2023 examination
GTU 3170718 Information Retrieval (IR) Winter 2023 Question Paper & PDF
B.E. · Computer Engineering · Semester 7 · Subject code 3170718
- Total
- 70 marks
- To pass
- 23 marks (33%)
- Duration
- 2.5 Hours 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
- Questions
- 5 with internal choice
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Q.2
14 Marks(a)
Describe Zipf's Law.
(b)
Differentiate between dynamic indexing and positional indexes.
(c)
Discuss the Boolean retrieval in detail with diagram.
OR
(c)
What is text encoding? Explain tokenization and stemming with example.
Q.3
14 Marks(a)
Explain n-gram indexes.
(b)
Discuss the Postings size estimation.
(c)
Describe how to perform document length normalization.
OR
(a)
Explain Vector space scoring.
(b)
Describe any two retrieval models in details.
(c)
Describe relevance feedback and query expansion with example.
Q.4
14 Marks(a)
What is the need of Filtering against spamming?
(b)
Write Short notes on Support vector machine classifiers.
(c)
What is k-means clustering? Explain with suitable example.
OR
(a)
Define the terms: TFIDF, Okapi, and F-measure.
(b)
Write Short notes on: kappa measure and interjudge agreement.
(c)
Describe Vector space classification using hyper planes.
Q.5
14 Marks(a)
What is web crawling?
(b)
Describe Cross language information retrieval.
(c)
Describe Hierarchical agglomerative clustering with suitable example.
OR
(a)
Define the terms Page Rank, HITS and Boosting.
(b)
Which is the fastest search engine for retrieval of information? Justify.
(c)
Explain XML retrieval? Also write down the major challenges in XML retrieval?
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