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EndsemNov 20242019 patternBE IT

Information & Storage Retrieval (ISR) SPPU Endsem Question Paper Nov 2024

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

Subject code
414441
Pattern
2019 pattern
Exam
Endsem
Session
Nov 2024
Max. marks
70
Time
2½ Hours
Semester
VII
Paper code
[6354]-572

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 precision and recall for the following example: The set of relevant documents for query q is Rq={d3, d7, d8, d11, d14, d19, d23, d25} where q is an information request. Using a new information retrieval algorithm, the documents are retrieved as follows, The retrieved answer set is S={d1, d2, d3, d7, d9, d10, d14, d20, d23, d24, d25}

      [6]
    2. b)

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

      [6]
    3. c)

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

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

      [6]
  2. Q2

    1. a)

      What are User oriented measures used in performance evaluation of IR systems? Explain them in detail.

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

      [9]
    2. b)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2022

      [9]
  3. Q3

    1. a)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2022

      [8]
    2. b)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

      [9]
  4. Q4

    1. a)

      Explain in detail the working of MULTOS data model.

      Also asked:Nov 2022

      [8]
    2. b)

      Explain distributed IR Query Processing. 2

      Also asked:May 2023

      [9]
  5. Q5

    1. a)

      What is Web Crawler? Explain Crawler-Indexer Architecture with neat diagram.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2022

      [9]
    2. b)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2022

      [9]
  6. Q6

    1. a)

      Write a note on characterizing the web.

      [9]
    2. b)

      Explain Web Scrapping with a suitable example.

      [9]
  7. Q7

    1. a)

      Define Recommender system. Explain in brief Collaborative Filtering.

      Also asked:May 2023 ·Nov 2022

      [9]
    2. b)

      Write short notes on Challenges in XML Retrieval.

      [8]
  8. Q8

    1. a)

      Compare Text -centric and Data -centric XML retrieval.

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

      [8]
    2. b)

      Explain in detail Content Based Recommendation of Documents. 

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

      [9]