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Information & Storage Retrieval (ISR) important questionsMost repeated in SPPU papers

These 42 questions appeared in more than one SPPU Information & Storage Retrieval paper we have: 11 papers, from Oct 2022 to Nov 2025. The most-asked come first. Each one links to the papers it was asked in.

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Repeated questions

Endsem questions (34)

  1. 7×asked

    What are User oriented measures used in performance evaluation of IR systems?

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  2. 6×asked

    Explain in detail Content Based Recommendation of Documents.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  3. 5×asked

    Define and explain the following terms. i) Precision ii) Recall 2

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·Sep 2023

  4. 5×asked

    Differentiate between Collaborative filtering system and content based filtering system. 

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  5. 5×asked

    What are the various techniques used to specify query in information visualization?

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2022

  6. 5×asked

    Write a note on request module and beautiful soup library.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  7. 5×asked

    Compare Text -centric and Data -centric XML retrieval.

    Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  8. 4×asked

    Explain Crawler-indexer Architecture with neat diagram.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2022

  9. 4×asked

    Explain DCG and F-Score measures used in performance evaluation of IR system.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  10. 4×asked

    Explain search engine mechanism with a neat diagram.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024 ·May 2023

  11. 4×asked

    Explain Vector Space Model for XML Retrieval.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

  12. 4×asked

    What is Collection Partitioning with respect to distributed IR? Explain in detail.

    Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  13. 3×asked

    Calculate precision and recall scores for the search, using the given data. A database contains 80 records on a particular topic and a search was conducted on that topic and 60 records were retrieved. Out of 60 records retrieved, 45 were relevant.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2023

  14. 3×asked

    Define and explain the following terms. i) MRR ii) NDCG

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024

  15. 3×asked

    Define Recommender system? Explain in brief Content based recommendation

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024

  16. 3×asked

    Describe Multimedia data support in Commercial DBMS?

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024

  17. 3×asked

    Explain in detail Multimedia office Server (MULTOS).

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024

  18. 3×asked

    What is multimedia IR? Explain GEMINI approach for Multimedia IR.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024

  19. 3×asked

    Define Recommender system. Explain in brief Collaborative Filtering.

    Nov 2024 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  20. 3×asked

    What are alternative measures used to evaluate system performance.

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  21. 2×asked

    Discuss the challenges faced in web searching.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025

  22. 2×asked

    What is data modelling in multimedia IR? Explain it in detail?

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025

  23. 2×asked

    Explain distributed IR Query Processing. 2

    Nov 2024 ·May 2023

  24. 2×asked

    Explain in detail the working of MULTOS data model.

    Nov 2024 ·Nov 2022

  25. 2×asked

    What is distributed IR? Explain the architecture of distributed IR in detail.

    Nov 2024 ·Nov 2022

  26. 2×asked

    What is relevance Judgement? Explain the term group relevance judgements, pseudo relevance feedback.

    Nov 2024 ·Nov 2022

  27. 2×asked

    What is role of Crawler in web searching? Write short note on Searching the Web?

    Nov 2024 ·Nov 2022

  28. 2×asked

    Discuss vector model for information retrieval. 

    Sep 2024 ·Nov 2023

  29. 2×asked

    Define and explain Interface support for search process related to visualization in information system.

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  30. 2×asked

    Explain difference between centralized and distributed architecture of search engine.

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  31. 2×asked

    What is distributed IR? Explain it with the help of Source Selection.

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  32. 2×asked

    What is multimedia IR? Explain the architecture of multimedia IR in detail.

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  33. 2×asked

    What is page ranking? Explain role of ranking in web searching with algorithm.

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  34. 2×asked

    What is web searching? Define and explain the following terms with respect to web searching i) Crawling ii) Web directories

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023

Insem questions (8)

  1. 4×asked

    Explain the concept of Inverted index file. How can it be used in Information Retrieval?

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023 ·Oct 2022

  2. 3×asked

    Differentiate between data retrieval & information retrieval.

    Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023 ·Oct 2022

  3. 2×asked

    Describe the Conflation algorithm and outline its main advantages and disadvantages.

    Aug 2025 ·Oct 2022

  4. 2×asked

    Explain exhaustivity & specificity with respect to index term weighting.

    Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023

  5. 2×asked

    Explain information retrieval process with the help of block diagram.

    Sep 2024 ·Oct 2022

  6. 2×asked

    Explain single pass clustering algorithm with a suitable example.

    Sep 2024 ·Oct 2022

  7. 2×asked

    Explain the process to generate document representative of a document with proper example using conflation algorithm.

    Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023

  8. 2×asked

    What are the different measures of association? Explain any three matching coefficients with suitable examples.

    Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023

Questions count as repeated when their wording matches closely across papers. Numericals that depend on a figure are left out, since the figure changes from paper to paper.