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Information Retrieval SPPU Endsem Question Paper Nov 2023

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
Nov 2023
Max. marks
70
Time
2 ½ Hours
Semester
VII
Paper code
[6181]-411

Printed for: B.E. (Artificial Intelligence & Data Science)

Instructions to the candidates

  1. Answer Q.l or Q.2, Q.3 or Q.4, Q.5 or Q.6, Q.7 or Q8.
  2. Neat diagrams must be drawn wherever necessary.
  3. Assume suitable data if necessary.

Questions

  1. Q1

    1. a)

      Define and explain Probabilistic Retrieval.

      [6]
    2. b)

      What is the probability ranking principle for interactive information retrieval?

      [6]
    3. c)

      What is the binary independent retrieval model?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

      [6]
  2. Q2

    1. a)

      What is language modeling approach to information retrieval?

      [6]
    2. b)

      State and explain different types of Bayesian networks?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

      [6]
    3. c)

      Explain language models?

      [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 ·May 2024

      [6]
    2. b)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

      [5]
    3. c)

      What are the applications of naive Bayes classifier?

      [6]
  4. Q4

    1. a)

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

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

      [6]
    2. b)

      What are the different types of agglomerative clustering?

      [5]
    3. c)

      What is the hypothesis used in the vector space model for classification? 2

      Also asked:Aug 2025

      [6]
  5. Q5

    1. a)

      Factors that influence a webpage’s PageRank score.

      Also asked:Nov 2024

      [6]
    2. b)

      Explain search engine ranking function?

      [5]
    3. c)

      What is parallelism in query processing?

      [6]
  6. Q6

    1. a)

      Define Python library is used for web crawling?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

      [6]
    2. b)

      What are the Main challenges posed by Web?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

      [5]
    3. c)

      Explain the components of focused web crawlers?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

      [6]
  7. Q7

    1. a)

      Explain multimedia IR models?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

      [9]
    2. b)

      What are the four phases of recommeder system?

      Also asked:Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

      [9]
  8. Q8

    1. a)

      Multimedia Information Retrieval.

      [9]
    2. b)

      This part has equations that don’t show as text. Open the PDF to read it.

      [9]