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Information Retrieval Question Bank

This document contains a question bank for an Information Retrieval course divided into three units. The questions cover topics like inverted indexes, vector space models, link analysis, summarization, question answering, and evaluation techniques.

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Information Retrieval Question Bank

This document contains a question bank for an Information Retrieval course divided into three units. The questions cover topics like inverted indexes, vector space models, link analysis, summarization, question answering, and evaluation techniques.

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QUESTION BANK

CLASS : TYCS SUBJECT: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

UNIT I
1. Define IR and Write down the goals of Information Retrieval.
2. Explain important components of IR systems.
3. What are the different challenges and applications of Information retrieval.
4. Write a detailed note on Inverted Index.
5. Why do we need Inverted index? Give Explanation.
6. Explain Inverted Index compression techniques in detail.
7. Write a note on:
1. Term Weighting
2. TF-IDF weighting
8. Write a note on Bag of Words in detail.
9. What is document indexing?
10. Why Document Indexing is important?
11. Describe Boolean Model in detail with it’s operators.
12. Write a note on Vector Space Model.
13. What is cosine similarity and how it is calculated?
14. Write a note on Probabilistic model.
15. What are the applications of spelling correction.
16. What are the challenges of spelling errors in queries and documents?
17. Explain Edit Distance Algorithm in detail.
18. Write down the Techniques used for spelling correction in IR systems.
19. Why System Evaluation is important and what are the difficulties in evaluating
IR systems?
20. Write a note on Precision and Recall.
21. Explain Below terms:
1. F-measure
2. average precision

Created by: Prof. Bhakti N. Raut www.programmersbot.com


QUESTION BANK
CLASS : TYCS SUBJECT: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

UNIT II
1. What is text categorization? And Explain any one text classification algorithm.
2. Write a note on Support Vector Machine Algorithm in detail.
3. What are the applications of text categorization and filtering?
4. Explain what is clustering in IR?
5. What are the applications of clustering in information retrieval.
6. Explain how K-Means algorithm is useful for clustering.
7. Describe architecture of IR with a suitable diagram.
8. Explain below terms:
1.Crawling
2.Indexing
9. Explain below terms under web search analysis:
1.Web Structure Analysis
2. Web content Analysis
3.Web Usage Analysis

10. What are the challenges of web crawling?


11. Write a detailed note on link analysis.

12. Explain pagerank algorithm and its uses in detail.


13. Write a note on RankSVM.
14. Describe the working of RankSVM
15. Explain Pairwise Learning technique in detail.
16. Explain Listwise learning technique in detail .
17. Write a note on Web graph representation and link analysis algorithms.
18. Give a detail explanation Link Analysis Algorithms
19. List various Applications of link analysis in IR systems.

Created by: Prof. Bhakti N. Raut www.programmersbot.com


QUESTION BANK
CLASS : TYCS SUBJECT: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

UNIT III
1. List and Explain Web page crawling techniques.
2. Write a note on Near-duplicate page detection algorithms.
3. How to Handle dynamic web content during crawling.
4. Write a detailed note on : Extractive and Abstractive Summarization
5. What are the Key differences between extractive and abstractive summarization.
6. What are several approaches for finding precise answers in QA systems
7. Write a note on Recommender systems.
8. Describe content based filtering in detail.
9. What are the key challenges of cross-lingual retrieval.
10. List and Explain different Techniques for Cross-Lingual Retrieval.
11. What are the challenges and Benefits of cross-lingual retrieval.
12. Write a note on Machine translation for Information Retrieval.
13. Explain Multilingual Document Representations and Query Translation.
14. Describe Multilingual Document Representations.
15. Write a note on Query Translation.
16. Explain Evaluation techniques for Information Retrieval (IR) systems.
17. Write note on below terms:
1. Precision and Recall
2. F-measure
3. Mean Average Precision (MAP)
4. Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR)
5. Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG)
6. Precision-Recall Curves
7. User Studies and User Satisfaction
18. Write a short note on User-based evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR).
19. Describe Test collections and benchmarking.
20. What are challenges and Advantages of Test Collections and Benchmarking.
21. Explain Benchmarking in IR.
22. Write a note on Online evaluation methods in Information Retrieval.

Created by: Prof. Bhakti N. Raut www.programmersbot.com

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