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IRS Important Questions

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IRS Important Questions

Descriptive
1. Discuss in detail about Thesaurus Generation.
2. Discuss in detailed about Hierarchical clustering in Information Retrieval Systems.
3. Define the Search Statements? Discuss in detail about Binding.
4. What is Ranking? Explain about Ranking Algorithms.
5. Discuss various Information Visualization Technologies.
6. Discuss the six key characteristics of Intelligent Agents.
7. Discuss in detail about Cognition and Perception.
8. Describe the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm with example.
9. How is the Information System evaluated? What are the measures used in it?
10. Describe the Boyer-Moore Text Search algorithm with an example.
11. Determine the structure of Hardware Text Search System.
12. What is a TREC results? Explain how it can use in Information System Evaluation.
13. Illustrate the concept of Clustering and the process of Clustering.
14. Describe about Similarity Measures and Ranking.
15. Discuss in detail about Text Streaming Architecture.

Objective

1. ________ provide a grouping of similar objects into a class


a. Grouping b. Clustering c. Mapping d. Characterizing
Ans: b
2. ________ allows linkage between clusters to be specified.
a. Grouping b. Clustering c. Mapping d. Characterizing
Ans: b
3. _________Increase recall by expanding searches with related terms.
a. Term Clustering b. Document Clustering c. Both d. None
Ans: a
4.______ is used to create document clusters.
a. Term Clustering b. Document Clustering c. Both d. None
Ans: b
5. Increase recall by expanding searches with related terms
a. Term Clustering b. Document Clustering c. Both d. None
Ans: a
6. The similarity between every term pair is calculated as a basis for determining
the_____
a. Grouping b. Clustering c. Mapping d. Characterizing
Ans: b
7. _______ model is used for thesaurus generation.
a. Binary b. Vector c. Static d. Dynamic
Ans: b
8. Cliques, single link, stars, and connected components algorithms are used for____
a. Clustring Classes b. Applying Stemming c. Data Structure d. All
Ans: a
9. _______ Ward’s method typically took the longest to implement Similarity Measure
between Clusters.
a. Single link clustering b. complete linkage c. Group average d. Ward’s method
Ans: d
10. Minimum computation on the order of One Pass Assignment is _____
a. O (n) b. O (log (n)) c. O (n2) d. O (nlog (n))
Ans: a
11______ displays the keywords followed by their context.
a. KWOC B. KWIC C. KWAC D.ALL
Ans: c
12. ______ displays the possible terms in its phrase context.
a. KWOC B. KWIC C. KWAC D.ALL
Ans: b
13. ______ character is used in KWIC to indicate the end of the phrase.
a. “” b. / c. @ d. %
Ans: b
14. Word Coordination Approach Specifies if phrases as well as individual terms are to be
clustered.
15. KWOC is another name for concordance.
16. KWIC AND KWAC is useful to determine the meaning of homographs.
17. KWOC Key Word Out of Context.
18. KWIC Key Word In Context.
19. KWAC Key Word And Context.
20. Vector Model is used for Automatic Term Clustering.
21. Hierarchical clustering in IRS focuses on the area of Hierarchical agglomerative
clustering methods(HACM).

22. Searching in general is concerned with calculating the similarity between a user's search
statement and the _____in the database.
a. Items b. Objects c. Classes d.None Ans:a

23. A Similarity formula is SIM (Itemi, Itemj)= ∑(Term i,k)(Term j,k)


24. Retrieval Ware first uses ______ to identify potentially relevant items.
a.Boolean Operators b.Proximity c.Indexes d.None Ans:c

25. Existing terms in the query can be re-weighted based on User feedback.

26. ___ is more likely to move a query closer to a user's information needs.
a. Positive feedback b. Negative feedback c. User feedback d. All
Ans:a

27. A dissemination system is sometimes labeled as Push system.

28. _________as it independently moves between Internet sites locating information of


interest.
a. Intelligent user b. Intelligent agent c. Web crawlers d. None Ans:b

29. The Cone-Tree is a 3-Dimensional representation of data.

30. ________classical techniques for text retrieval techniques have been defined for
organizing items in a textual database.

a. Four b. Five c. Three d. None Ans:c

31. The Term detector is the special hardware/software that contains all the search terms.

32. Which one is the Software Text Search Algorithm?


a. Knuth-Morris-Pratt b. Boyer Moore c. Brute force d. All Ans:d

33. The GESCAN system uses a Text Array Processor that simultaneously matches many
terms and conditions against a given text stream.

34. The evaluation criteria of Information Retrieval System are based on.
a. Effectiveness b. Efficiency c. Usability d. All Ans:d

35. Fallout is another measure that is directly related to retrieving non-relevant items.

36. URR is used to measures the number of _______ that are retrieved by one algorithm that
are not retrieved by the others.
a.Relevant items b. Non-Relevant items c. Both d. None Ans:a

37. TREC stands for Text Retrieval Evolution Conference.

38. _________technique is used to complete a query by searching for query terms that could
not be satisfied by the index.
a. Text Search b. Term Search c. Index Search d. All Ans:a

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