Q.1
14 Marks(a)
Define: Structured data, Boolean query, Inverted index
(b)
What is Information Retrieval? Explain the process of IR.
(c)
Explain text classification using k-nearest neighbor classification approach.
Gujarat Technological UniversityWinter 2025 examination
GTU 3170718 Information Retrieval (IR) Winter 2025 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)
What is token? Which are the different issues in tokenization?
(b)
How to compute tf-idf weight for a specific term and document? Explain.
(c)
Explain:
i)Blocked sort based indexing
ii)Dynamic indexing
OR
(c)
Explain:
i)Cosine measure
ii)Document length normalization
Q.3
14 Marks(a)
What is F-measure? Why F-measure is required?
(b)
What is precision and recall? An IR system returns 23 relevant documents, and 17 nonrelevant documents. There are a total of 35 relevant documents in the collection. What is the precision and recall of the system on this search?
(c)
Discuss about user relevance feedback. Illustrate the cases where use of only relevance feedback is not enough?
OR
(a)
Identify the requirement of spam filters.
(b)
Illustrate boosting technique with any one algorithm.
(c)
Explain kappa statistic. How is it interpreted? Consider agreement details of two judges on document relevance. Compute kappa statistic for the given details: Judge Relevant Non-Relevant Judge 1 Relevant 250 20 Non-relevant 15 45
Q.4
14 Marks(a)
What is text classification? List out examples of text classification in the context of information retrieval.
(b)
What is hierarchical agglomerative clustering? Explain.
(c)
Discuss:
i)N-gram index
ii)Zipf’s law
OR
(a)
Which are the limitations of k-means clustering?
(b)
Explain clustering based on Gaussian mixture model.
(c)
Demonstrate SVM classifier. Explain any three kernel functions.
Q.5
14 Marks(a)
What do you mean by text summarization? Mention its types.
(b)
Explain: Page rank, HITS, XML retrieval, Semantic web
(c)
Illustrate cross language information retrieval and the approaches used for it.
OR
(a)
Write short note on question answering.
(b)
Discuss web crawler architecture.
(c)
Which are the basic tasks in topic detection and tracking? What is story in this context?
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