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The document consists of a series of questions and answers related to Information Retrieval (IR) concepts. Key topics include the nature of searching in videos, spam filtering, the importance of relevance and efficiency, Boolean retrieval, indexing, ranking, tokenization, and relevance judgments. It emphasizes that both effectiveness and efficiency are important in IR, and outlines the components of a test collection.

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The document consists of a series of questions and answers related to Information Retrieval (IR) concepts. Key topics include the nature of searching in videos, spam filtering, the importance of relevance and efficiency, Boolean retrieval, indexing, ranking, tokenization, and relevance judgments. It emphasizes that both effectiveness and efficiency are important in IR, and outlines the components of a test collection.

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1. Searching in videos is IR?

• Yes

• No

• Only if videos have text in them


Answer : yes

2. Spam filtering is IR?

• Yes

• No
Answer: Yes

3. Is effectiveness more important than efficiency in IR?

• Yes

• No, efficiency is more important

• Both are equally important


Answer: Both are equally important

4. Relevance is having a value with respect to the query?

• Yes

• No, with respect to the search engine

• No, with respect to the information need


Answer: No, with respect to the information need

5. "Term-Document Incidence Matrix" shows ...

• For each term, the documents that have it

• For each document, the terms that appear in it

• Both
Answer: Both

6. Boolean retrieval always finds relevant documents.

• Yes, always!
• Sometimes

• Never!
Answer: Sometimes

7. Google supports Boolean retrieval.

• Yes

• No
Answer: Yes

8. Boolean retrieval is called "exact-match" because ...

• It returns documents that exactly satisfy the Boolean query.

• It returns documents that exactly satisfy the information need.

• It divides the collection into exactly two subsets of documents.


Answer: It returns documents that exactly satisfy the Boolean query.

9. When we change our query after seeing the search results, .....

• We are actually changing our information need.

• We are representing the same information need but in a different way.

• Either of the above cases can happen


Answer: Either of the above cases can happen

10. Indexing is done at query time only.

• Yes

• No, it is done only offline

• No, it is done both offline and online


Answer: No, it is done only offline

11. Ranking is done ...

• Offline

• Online

• Both offline and online


Answer: Online

12. In inverted index, we can get efficiently ...


• What terms appear in a specific document

• What documents have a specific term

• Both of the above


Answer: What documents have a specific term

13. One posting belongs to ...

• One term

• One document

• One term in one document


Answer: One term in one document

14. Phrase queries are a special case of proximity queries.

• Yes

• No
Answer: Yes

15. Proximity queries are ......... Boolean queries.

• More expensive than

• Less expensive than

• Of equal cost to
Answer: More expensive than

16. Can tokenization affect retrieval effectiveness?

• Yes

• No
Answer: Yes

17. Stop words should usually have very high document frequency.

• Yes

• No
Answer: Yes

18. Same tokenization/normalization steps should be applied to documents and


queries.
• Yes, always!

• No, they can be different of course


Answer: Yes, always!

19. The dictionary in the index includes ...

• Words

• Tokens

• Terms

• All of the above


Answer: Terms

20. A test collection has 3 components (choose 3):

• Set of information needs (topics)

• Collection of documents

• Set of queries for one information need

• Set of evaluation measures

• Relevance judgments

• Set of IR systems
Answer: Set of information needs (topics), Collection of documents, Relevance
judgments

21. Relevance judgments indicate ...

• How good the IR system is.

• Which documents are relevant to which topics.

• Which topics are good for evaluating the IR systems.


Answer: Which documents are relevant to which topics.

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