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Information Retrieval important questionsMost repeated in SPPU papers

These 26 questions appeared in more than one SPPU Information Retrieval paper we have: 7 papers, from Sep 2023 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 (19)

  1. 4×asked

    Define Python library is used for web crawling.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

  2. 4×asked

    Explain the components of focused web crawlers.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

  3. 4×asked

    What are different types of clustering algorithm? Explain any one of them.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

  4. 4×asked

    What are the four phases of recommender system?

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

  5. 4×asked

    What are the Main challenges posed by Web?

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

  6. 4×asked

    What is the binary independent retrieval model?

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

  7. 4×asked

    What is the difference between clustering and classification? Can clustering be used for classification purposes.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023

  8. 3×asked

    Discuss the factors that influence a webpage’s PageRank score. Discuss the challenges involve in web search engine.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

  9. 3×asked

    Explain in detail about naïve Bayes algorithm and its application in text classification.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

  10. 3×asked

    Explain multimedia IR models.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

  11. 3×asked

    Explain with suitable example different levels of NLP.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

  12. 3×asked

    List and explain the challenges in Natural language processing.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

  13. 3×asked

    Solve Agglomerative hierarchical clustering for single link with example. 2

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

  14. 3×asked

    State and explain different types of Bayesian networks?

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

  15. 3×asked

    What are the different evaluation metric for Recommender system.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

  16. 3×asked

    What is K nearest neighbor classifier with an illustration in information retrieval?

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

  17. 2×asked

    Explain types of language models.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  18. 2×asked

    Write a short note on Vector Space Model.

    Aug 2025 ·Nov 2023

  19. 2×asked

    Factors that influence a webpage’s PageRank score

    Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

Insem questions (7)

  1. 3×asked

    Differentiate between Data Retrieval and Information Retrieval.

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023

  2. 3×asked

    Discuss different types of dictionaries in information retrieval.

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023

  3. 3×asked

    Enlist Features of IR System.

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023

  4. 3×asked

    What are the components of IR Model?

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023

  5. 2×asked

    Explain Query Processing for Ranked retrieval. 

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2023

  6. 2×asked

    Explain Static Inverted Index.

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2023

  7. 2×asked

    What are the methods of text categorization?

    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.