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Information & Storage Retrieval (ISR) SPPU Endsem Question Paper May 2023

All 8 questions from this SPPU endsem paper, as printed. Read them here or open the PDF.

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Subject code
414441
Pattern
2019 pattern
Exam
Endsem
Session
May 2023
Max. marks
70
Time
2½ Hours
Semester
VII
Paper code
[6004]-563

Instructions to the candidates

  1. Answer Q1 or Q2, Q3 or Q4, Q5 or Q6, Q7 or Q8.
  2. Neat diagrams must be drawn wherever necessary.
  3. Figures to the right side indicate full marks.
  4. Assume suitable data if necessary.

Questions

  1. Q1

    1. a)

      Why are the performance evaluation measures needed in IR system? Explain trade-off between Recall and Precision.

      [6]
    2. b)

      What are alternative measures used to evaluate system performance in IR.

      Also asked:Nov 2023 ·Nov 2022

      [6]
    3. c)

      Explain in detail the term NDCG. Explain with a suitable example.

      [6]

  2. Q2

    1. a)

      What are User oriented measures used in performance evaluation of IR system.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·Nov 2022

      [6]
    2. b)

      Explain MRR and F-Score measures used in performance evaluation of IR systems.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2023

      [6]
    3. c)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2023

      [6]

  3. Q3

    1. a)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2023

      [8]
    2. b)

      What is Query processing? How is it processed in distributed IR?

      Also asked:Nov 2024

      [9]

  4. Q4

    1. a)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2023

      [9]
    2. b)

      Explain Collection partitioning with respect to Distributed IR. B .E. (IT)

      Also asked:Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·Nov 2022

      [8]

  5. Q5

    1. a)

      Explain search engine mechanism with a neat diagram.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024

      [6]
    2. b)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2023

      [6]
    3. c)

      Write a note on request module and beautiful soup library.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

      [6]

  6. Q6

    1. a)

      Explain difference between centralized and distributed architecture of search engine.

      Also asked:Nov 2023

      [6]
    2. b)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2023

      [6]
    3. c)

      Explain Web Scrapping with a suitable example.

      [6]

  7. Q7

    1. a)

      Differentiate Collaborative filtering and Content Filtering.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

      [8]
    2. b)

      Define Recommender system? Explain Collaborative Filtering in brief.

      Also asked:Nov 2024 ·Nov 2022

      [9]

  8. Q8

    1. a)

      Explain Text-Centric and Data-Centric XML retrieval.

      Also asked:Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·Nov 2022

      [8]
    2. b)

      Explain in detail Content Based Recommendation of Documents. 

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·Nov 2022

      [9]