Gujarat Technological UniversityWinter 2024 examination

GTU 3170718 Information Retrieval (IR) Winter 2024 Question Paper & PDF

B.E. · Computer Engineering · Semester 7 · Subject code 3170718
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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.1

14 Marks
(a)
3 marks
Define: structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
(b)
4 marks
Explain kappa measure with an example.
(c)
7 marks

What is Naïve bayes classifier? Explain text classification using Naïve bayes classifier.

Q.2

14 Marks
(a)
3 marks
Differentiate classification and clustering.
(b)
4 marks

Define tokenization, normalization, stemming and stop words in text processing.

(c)
7 marks
Write a short note on:
i)Zip’s law
ii)Gamma codes
(c)
7 marks
What is tf-idf weighting? Explain tf and idf in detail.

Q.3

14 Marks
(a)
3 marks
How cosine similarity measure is used to compare documents?
(b)
4 marks
Briefly explain k-nearest neighbor classifier.
(c)
7 marks
Explain Boolean retrieval model and vector space model.
(a)
3 marks
Which are the issues with k-means clustering?
(b)
4 marks
Discuss biword and positional indexes for handling phrase query.
(c)
7 marks

What is relevance feedback? Explain Rocchio algorithm for relevance feedback.

Q.4

14 Marks
(a)
3 marks
Briefly explain spam filtering.
(b)
4 marks
What is user happiness? How to measure user happiness?
(c)
7 marks
Explain hierarchical agglomerative clustering with an example.
(a)
3 marks
Identify the need of F-measure and describe F-measure in brief.
(b)
4 marks
Discuss precision and recall.
(c)
7 marks
Explain support vector machine classifier for text classification.

Q.5

14 Marks
(a)
3 marks
What is text summarization? Enlist types of text summarization.
(b)
4 marks
What is web crawler? How does it work?
(c)
7 marks

What is ranking in information retrieval? List ranking algorithms and explain any one ranking algorithm.

(a)
3 marks
Discuss question answering.
(b)
4 marks
What is semantic web? What is the need of semantic web?
(c)
7 marks
Explain primary tasks of topic detection and tracking.

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Official Gujarat Technological University (GTU) examination paper for Information Retrieval (IR) (Winter 2024, 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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