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EndsemMay 20242019 patternBE AI&DS

Information Retrieval SPPU Endsem Question Paper May 2024

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

Subject code
417524 B
Pattern
2019 pattern
Exam
Endsem
Session
May 2024
Max. marks
70
Time
2½ Hours
Semester
VII
Paper code
[6263]-387

Printed for: B.E. (A.I. & D.S.)

Instructions to the candidates

  1. Attempt Q.1 or Q.2, Q.3 or Q.4, Q.5 or Q.6, Q.7 or Q.8.
  2. Neat diagrams must be drawn wherever necessary.
  3. Assume suitable data if necessary

Questions

  1. Q1

    1. a)

      Define and explain Probabilistic Retrieval.

      [4]
    2. b)

      Define the following with respect to Information Retrieval: i) Vector Space Model ii) Term Frequency iii) Inverse Document Frequency

      [6]
    3. c)

      What is the binary independent retrieval model?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

      [6]
  2. Q2

    1. a)

      List the problems associated with n-gram. Explain how these problems are handled.

      [6]
    2. b)

      List and explain the challenges in Natural language processing.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

      [4]
    3. c)

      Explain with suitable example different levels of NLP.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

      [6]
  3. Q3

    1. a)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

      [6]
    2. b)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

      [6]
    3. c)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

      [6]
  4. Q4

    1. a)

      Write partitioning algorithm for clustering.

      [10]
    2. b)

      Solve Agglomerative hierarchical clustering for single link with example. 2

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

      [8]
  5. Q5

    1. a)

      Discuss the factors that influence a webpages PageRank score. Discuss the challenges involve in web search engine.

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

      [8]
    2. b)

      What is page ranking? Calculate page rank of following web pages. Assume damping factor 0.7.

      [10]
  6. Q6

    1. a)

      Define Python library is used for web crawling?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

      [6]
    2. b)

      What are the main challenges posed by Web?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

      [6]
    3. c)

      Explain the components of focused web crawlers?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

      [6]
  7. Q7

    1. a)

      Outline the steps to build a recommender system with an example.

      [10]
    2. b)

      What are the four phases of recommender system?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023

      [8]
  8. Q8

    1. a)

      Mulitimedia Information Retrieval.

      [8]
    2. b)

      What are the different evaluation metric for Recommender system.   

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

      [10]