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    The document discusses information retrieval systems (IRS) and their goals and components. It defines IRS as systems capable of storing, retrieving, and maintaining information such as images, audio, or multimedia objects. The goals of IRS are to optimize query speed, identify relevant information sources, analyze source contents, represent contents for matching queries, and match search statements to stored databases. IRS objectives aim to retrieve top ranked and all relevant items. Indexing and cataloging are described as reducing workload by only retrieving required data. Signature file structures provide direct links to relevant data but introduce information loss.

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    INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

    ASSIGNMENT-1
    Q1)Define IRS and Goals?

    A1) An IRS is a system that is capable of storage , retrieval and maintain the
    information .

    It maybe a image,audio or a multi-media object.

    Information retrieval is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to


    an information need from a collection of information resources.

    Information Retrieval maybe defined as a software program that deals with the
    organization,storage,retrieval and evaluation from document.

    ** Goals of IRS:

    1)A goal of information retrieval is to optimize the speed of the Query

    (i) To identify the sources of information relevant to the areas of


    interest of the target users’ community

    (ii) To analyze the contents of the sources (documents)

    (iii) To represent the contents of the analyzed sources for matching


    with the users’ queries (iv) To match the search statement with the
    stored database
    2Q)Describe objectives of IRS?
    Two major measures are :

    1)Precision:The ability to retrieve top ranked data that are mostly documents.

    2)Recall:The ability of the search to find all the relevant items in the corpus.
    3Q)Explain Browser capabilities?

    A3)
    4Q)Explain Ctalog and Indexing?

    A4)

    **INDEXING:

    The function of indexing in libraries and information retrieval systems is to


    indicate the whereabouts or absence of items relevant to a request. It is
    essentially a time-saving mechanism. Theoretically, we can always find the
    relevant items by an exhaustive search through the whole collection.

    Since this is economically impossible, the size of the store to be examined is


    reduced by classification, using this term in its very broadest sense, i.e. , as the
    recognition of useful similarities between documents and the establishment of
    useful document groups based on these similarities. So documents, or document
    surrogates, are assigned to a limited number of classes according to certain
    criteria, in particular, their subject content.
    Most library indexes, other than those to imaginative worksare aimed ultimately
    at the retrieval of subject information.

    It is of two types:

    1)Traditional

    2)Automatic

    ** Cataloging:

    Displaying list of relevant items.

    Only the iterms are of nrcissity are to be retrieved.

    This procedure reduces the work load on the system.

    The information is used proprly because onlt required amount of data is taken
    care of and is to be retrieved.

    Eg: Images , names , video.


    5Q)Explain signature file structure.

    A5) Today, one or more of the

    following four techniques have been frequently used:


    full text searching, B-trees, inversion, and the signature
    fi le. Full text searching imposes no space overhead but
    requires long response ti me. In contrast, B-trees, inver-
    sion, and the signature fi le work quickl, but need a large
    intermediary representati on structure (index), which
    provides direct links to relevant data.
    The signature technique cannot only be used in docu-
    ment databases but also in relati onal and object-ori-
    ented databases.

    SIGNATURE FILES:
    Intuiti vely, a signature fi le can be considered as a set of
    bit strings, which are called signatures. Compared to the
    inverted index, the signature fi le is more effi cient in
    handling new insertions and queries on parts of words.

    But the scheme introduces informati on loss .


    These are also called inverted fi le structures.
    The concept of the inverted file type of index is as follows. Assume a set of
    documents. Each document is assigned a list of keywords or attributes, with optional
    relevance weights associated with each keyword (attribute). An inverted file is then
    the sorted list (or index) of keywords (attributes), with each keyword having links to
    the documents containing that keyword (see Figure 3.1) . This is the kind of index
    found in most commercial library systems. 

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