IR Question Bank
Unit-1
1) What is Information Retrieval? Explain with Diagram.
2) Explain history of IR.
3) Explain components of IR in details.
4) Explain issues of IR in details.
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Explain problems in IR.
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Explain disadvantages of IR.
5) Explain basic terms in Boolean Retrieval.
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What is Boolean Retrieval? Explain terms in details.
6) What is Boolean Query Processing?
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Explain algorithm for Boolean Queries using AND, OR, NOT.
7) What is Inverted Index? Explain with example.
8) Write a short note on Inverted file.
9) Write a short note on Signature file on Information Retrieval.
10)Write a short note on Permuterm Indexes.
11)Explain k-gram indexes for wild card queries in details.
12)Write a short note on Spelling Correction.
13)Write down 2 forms of Spelling Correction and explain any one detail.
14)What is Edit Distance? Explain algorithm of Edit Distance in detail.
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Write a short note on Dynamic minimum Edit Distance.
15)Write a short note on Phonetic Correction.
16)Explain k-gram indexes for Spelling Correction.
17)What are the advantages and disadvantages of IR?
Unit-2
1) Write a short note on Link Analysis.
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What is Link Analysis? Explain with example.
2) What is web graph? How to implement web graph structure?
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Explain anchor tag and web graph in Web search engine.
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Illustrate web as directed graph.
3) Explain Page rank algorithm with suitable example.
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Write a short note on Page rank algorithm.
4) Explain Markov chains in detail.
5) Write a short note on Hubs and Authorities.
6) Write a short note on similarities between 2 terms with suitable example.
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Explain cosine rule using similarity concept.
7) Write a short note on Hadoop and Map Reduce.
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Explain Map Reduce in detail with diagram
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What is Map Reduce? Explain example by considering text file to explain
its working.
8) Explain Standard test collection in evaluation.
9) How to enhance personalized web search?
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Explain personalized web search with its advantages and disadvantages.
10)Give challenges of collaborative filtering.
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Explain collaborative filtering in detail.
11)Distinguish between Collaborative filtering and content based filtering.
12)Analyse how handling invisible web is done in IR?
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Write a short note on Invisible web.
13)Explain the concept of summarization in detail.
14)Explain the approaches and techniques of summarization in detail.
15)Analyse the process of Cross Lingual Retrieval.
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Explain challenges in Cross Lingual Retrieval.
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What is Cross Lingual Retrieval?
16)State the aim of Question-Answering.
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Write a short note on Question-Answering.
17)Write a short note on Recommender System.
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Discuss about Recommender System.
Unit-3
1) What is web search engine? Give one example.
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Define Web search engine.
2) Explain steps to perform by search engine.
3) State the Characteristics of web search engine.
4) What are the advantages and disadvantages of Web search engine.
5) What are the various challenges in web search engine?
6) What is web? How to describe structure of web?
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Short note on structure of web.
7) Define user and explain different types of queries used by user.
8) What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
9) Difference between Black hat SEO and white hat SEO.
10)Explain SPAM in detail.
11)Short note on web size measurement.
12)What are various components of Web Search Architecture?
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Write a short note on Web Search Architecture.
13)Explain 2 major functions of Web Search Engine.
14)Write a short note on basic components of XML.
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What is XML? Explain its advantages and disadvantages(Usage and
characteristics).
15)Explain challenges in XML Retrieval.
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Define XML and challenges in XML Retrieval.
16)Explain Vector Space Model for XML Retrieval with its advantages and
disadvantages.
17)Write difference between Text Centric and Data Centric XML Retrieval.