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Information & Storage Retrieval (ISR) SPPU Endsem Question Paper Nov 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
Nov 2023
Max. marks
70
Time
2½ Hours
Semester
VII
Paper code
[6181]-191

Printed for: B.E. (Information Technology)

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 indicate full marks.
  4. Assume suitable data, if necessary.

Questions

  1. Q1

    1. a)

      Calculate the precision and recall scores for the search, using the given data. A database contains 160 relevant records on a particular topic and a search was conducted on that topic and 120 records were retrieved. Out of 120 records retrieved, 90 were relevant.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·May 2025

      [6]
    2. b)

      What are alternative measures used to evaluate system performance.

      Also asked:May 2023 ·Nov 2022

      [6]
    3. c)

      Explain in detail the term Precision and Recall. Explain with suitable examples.

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

      [6]

  2. Q2

    1. a)

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

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

      [6]
    3. c)

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

      Also asked:May 2023

      [6]

  3. Q3

    1. a)

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

      Also asked:May 2023

      [9]
    2. b)

      Explain model of Multimedia information retrieval. 2

      Also asked:Sep 2024

      [8]

  4. Q4

    1. a)

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

      Also asked:May 2023

      [8]
    2. b)

      Explain Collection Partitioning with respect to Distributed IR.

      Also asked:Nov 2024 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

      [9]

  5. Q5

    1. a)

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

      Also asked:May 2023

      [8]
    2. b)

      Write a note on i) Request module and beautiful soup library. ii) Web scraping

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

      [10]

  6. Q6

    1. a)

      Explain difference between centralized and distributed architecture of search engine.

      Also asked:May 2023

      [9]
    2. b)

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

      Also asked:May 2023

      [9]

  7. Q7

    1. a)

      Differentiate Collaborative filtering and Content based Filtering.

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

      [8]
    2. b)

      Explain Vector Space Model for XML Retrieval.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024

      [9]

  8. Q8

    1. a)

      Explain Text-Centric and Data-Centric XML retrieval.

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

      [8]
    2. b)

      Explain in detail Content Based Recommendation of documents. 

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

      [9]