JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
JN B. Tech IV Year I Semester Examinations, May/June - 2019 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS (Common to CSE, IT) TU Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 75 Note: This question paper contains two parts A and B. Part A is compulsory which carries 25 marks. Answer all questions in Part A. Part B consists of 5 Units. Answer any one full question from each unit. Each question carries 10 marks and may have a, b, c as sub questions. H PART- A (25 Marks) U 1.a) What is a non-binary independence model? [2] b) What is a term frequency and normalized term frequency? Write down their equations. SE [3] c) Give an example that improves the effectiveness of Information retrieval system. [2] d) What is Ward's method in clustering? [3] e) What are semantic networks? [2] D f) What is comparable corpus and parallel corpus? [3] g) What is meant by query processing? [2] h) What is a signature and how to construct signature file. [3] 12 i) What is high-precision search? [2] j) What is structured data and what is the use of XML? [3] -0 PART-B (50 Marks) 2. Explain about vector space model in detail. [10] 6- OR 3.a) Explain about retrieval strategies and their categories. b) What is smoothing in language model? Explain. [5+5] 20 4.a) Explain how Thesaurus are used to expand a query? b) Explain about the use of manually generated Thesauri. [5+5] 1 OR 5. Explain about: 9P a) Resultset clustering b) Hierarchical Agglomerative clustering. [5+5]
6.a) What are the four core questions to cross the language barrier? Explain. b) Explain about document translations and query translations. [4+6] M OR 7. Explain the following in semantic networks a) R-distance b) K-distance [5+5]
8. Discuss about Duplicate document detection. [10]
OR 9. Explain about fixed length and variable index compression. [10] 10. What is distributed document retrieval? Explain the theoretical model of distributed JN retrieval. [10] OR 11.a) Explain briefly about advantages and disadvantages of combining systems of DBMS and TU Information retrieval. b) Explain about Relevance feedback in relational model. [5+5]
