CS6007 Information Retrieval, Final year, Department of Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology, First and second Units Questions.

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            Part A (10*2=20)
1.      Define IR.
2.      What is search engine?
3.      What is invisible web?
4.      Define Zipf’s law.
5.      Differentiate open source software and close source software.
6.      What is proprietary software?
7.      Define focused crawler.
8.      List out the features of web crawlers?
9.      What is web browser?
10.  What are the requirements of XML information retrieval system?
Part B (5*16=80)
11.  (a) i) Explain the components of IR in detail.                                      (8)
     ii) Explain the centralized architecture in detail.                             (8)
                                    (OR)
 (b) Explain the following                                                                    (16)
      i) Measuring the web.
      ii) Characterizing the web
      12. (a)Explain the impact of the web on IR.                                                          (16)
                                                (OR)
            (b) i)With neat diagram explain the distributed architecture in detail.  (10)
      ii) Explain user interface in detail.                                                 (6)
13.(a)Explain the various open source software licenses in detail.                        (16)
                                          (OR)

      (b)i)Explain the features and architecture of web crawlers.                 (10)
           ii) Explain near duplicate detection in detail.                                  (6)
14. (a)Explain search engine optimization in detail.                                               (16)
                                          (OR)
      (b)i)Explain focused crawling in detail.                                                           (10)
           ii) Explain index compression in detail.                                          (6)
15.(a)Explain  XML  retrieval method in detail.                                         (16)
                                          (OR)
      (b)i) With neat diagram explain the meta-searchers in detail.               (10)
         ii) Explain the various types of paid search services in detail.                      (6)