UNIT I – INTRODUCTION

Part B - Questions

1. Briefly explain the components of Information Retrieval? ( 8 - Mark)

2. Difference between Data Retrieval and Information Retrieval? ( 4 – Mark)

3. Define Open Software with its need and list out the advantages, Disadvantages. (8 – Mark)

4. Discuss about the widely used open source software license. (16 – Mark)

5. Illustrate the impact of the web on Information Retrieval with its architecture. ( 8 – Mark)

6. List out the web problems on Information Retrieval. ( 4 – Mark)

7. Explain briefly about components of a search engine? ( 16 – Mark)

8. Label the components used to characterizing the web .( 8- Marks )

UNIT II – INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Part B - Questions

1. Explain in detail about the information retrieval models.

2. Write short notes on Boolean and vector space retrieval model.

3. Briefly explain the term weighting and cosine similarity.

4. Explain in detail about web page pre-processing.

5. Briefly explain the language based model and probabilistic models.

6. Write about relevance feedback and query expansion.

7. Write short notes on Latent Semantic Indexing.

 UNIT III – WEB SEARCH ENGINE – INTRODUCTION AND CRAWLING

Part B - Questions

1. Explain in detail about the web search engine optimization techniques.

2. With a neat diagram explain the web search architecture.

3. Explain in detail about Harvest architecture.

4. Explain web crawling architecture in detail.

5. Briefly explain about meta and focused crawling.

6. Write short notes on XML retrieval.

UNIT IV – WEB SEARCH – LINK ANALYSIS AND SPECIALIZATION SEARCH

Part B – Questions

1. Write note on Link analysis and Hubs and authorities.

2. Describe the methods used for Link analysis

3. Explain how page ranking is performed in web search and satae its limitation.

4. Explain HITS with example.

5. Compare HITS with page rank.

6. Explain searching and ranking with example.

7. Describe hoe relevance scoring is used to rank the pages.

8. Explain the various methods to find the similarity of two documents using similarity
measures.

9. Describe the role of Hadoop and Map reduces in web search.

10. Explain in detail the methods of evaluation of web search.

11. Write short notes on personalized search and invisible web.

12. Compare collaborative filtering with content based filtering methods in giving the
recommendation for the documents to the user. Illustrate these methods with example.
13. Write notes on

 Snippet generation

 Summarization

 Question Answering

14. Describe Cross Lingual Information Retrieval(CLIF) and its limitation in web search.

15. Describe the case study of Google or Altavista search engines using web search
principles and techniques.

UNIT V – DOCUMENT TEXT MINING

Part B – Questions

1. Explain in detail about organization and relevance feedback.

2. Explain the working of native Bayesian classifier with an example.

3. How agglomerative hierarchical clustering works? Explain with an example.

4. Develop an algorithm for classification using decision tree. Illustrate the algorithm with
an relevant example.

5. Explain in detail about k-means algorithm with suitable example.

6. Write short notes on Expectation Maximization problem.