B.Sc. (Computer Science) Sem 6 Information Retrieval Apr 2025 Question Paper - Mumbai University | munotes

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1. Q3 Illustrations, in-depth answers and diagrams willbe
2. Q4 Mixing of sub-questions is not allowed ANY FOUR from the following: (20M)
   • (a) Information Retrieval (IR) and explain its goals
   • (b) How are documents represented in an IR system? Discuss different term
   • (c) Describe the Boolean model in Information Retrieval. Discuss Boolean operators and query processing Write a short note on Vector space model
   • (e) distance, and how is it measuring string similarity?
   • (f) What is Experimental design andsignificance testing
3. Q2 Attempt from the following: (20M)
   • (a) Write a short note on support vector machine State the challenges in web search
   • (d) What is the role of crawler in information retrieval? How does it accomplish
   • (e) List link analysis algorithms and write the applications of link analysis
   • (f) Discuss pairwise learning
4. Q3 Attempt ANY FOUR from the following: (20M)
   • (a) What is text summarization? Explain extractive summarization
   • (b) Discuss web crawling techniques
   • (c) Write a short note on user based collaborative filtering
   • (d) State the techniques and applications of cross-lingual retrieval
   • (e) Briefly explain Surveys in information retrieval
   • (f) Explain Near-duplicate page detection algorithms
5. Q4 Attempt ANY FIVE from the following: (15M)
   • (a) Discuss storage mechanisms for indexed’documents
   • (b) | Whatare the Techniques used for spelling correction in IR systems
   • (c) Cosine Similarity in Information Retrieval
   • (d) Briefly explain RankBoost Algorithm
   • (e) How to handle dynamic web content during crawling in IR system
   • (f) Write a short note on Test collections and benchmarking

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