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The document contains 26 multiple choice questions about information retrieval. It covers topics such as the objective of information retrieval being to retrieve all relevant documents, relevance meaning a document partially or fully matches the information need, and examples of information retrieval systems including digital libraries and search engines. It also discusses concepts like document structure, classification methods, and Boolean search logic operations and precedence.

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Information Retrieval MCQ PDF

The document contains 26 multiple choice questions about information retrieval. It covers topics such as the objective of information retrieval being to retrieve all relevant documents, relevance meaning a document partially or fully matches the information need, and examples of information retrieval systems including digital libraries and search engines. It also discusses concepts like document structure, classification methods, and Boolean search logic operations and precedence.

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Information Retrieval

1. IR objective is to retrieve _______ the relevant documents.


a. All
b. Specified number
c. half
d. None of the above
Answer: a. All

2. In information retrieval the term “relevant” is used to represent an item


a. Exactly match information needed
b. partially matches information needed
c. both a and b
d. None of the above
Answer: c. both a and b

3. ______ is an example of Information retrieval systems.


a. Digital library
b. search engines
c. Mail
d. All of the above
Answer: d. All of the above

4. When having a document with identified zones it can be classified


a. Structured
b. Unstructured
c. Semi-structured
d. None of the above
Answer: c. Semi-structured

5. When deciding where the new document will be added to the exist topics.
a. Clustering
b. Classification
c. Opinion mining
d. All of the above
Answer: b. Classification

6. Suggesting preferable restaurants is one of the tasks handled by information retrieval.


a. True
b. false
Answer: a. True

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7. Which of the following are not handled by Information retrieval
a. documents
b. databases
c. text files
d. None of the above
Answer: b. databases

8. What are the tokens of “information, retrieval & database”?


a. 1) Information 2) retrieval 3) database
b. 1) Information 2) retrieval & database
c. 1) Information, retrieval & database
d. None of the above
Answer: a. 1) Information 2) retrieval 3) database

9. ………. used for finding research information about specific topics.


a. Library catalog
b. Web search service
c. Abstracting and indexing system
d. All of the above
Answer: c. Abstracting and indexing system

10. ………. is an instance of a sequence of characters


a. Token
b. Stop word
c. Normalization
d. All of the above
Answer: a. Token

11. The retrieved material of IR is usually ……….


a. documents
b. Videos
c. Data
d. None of the above
Answer: a. documents.

12. The retrieved information in Database is ………. Data.


a. Structured
b. Unstructured
c. Semi-structured
d. None of the above
Answer: a. Structured

13. Finding a file on a computer is an example of search systems.


a. True
b. False
Answer: a. True

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14. Each word of the query is called ……….
a. Keyword
b. String
c. text
d. None of the above
Answer: a. Keyword

15. A data structure that improves the speed of word retrieval.


a. Representation
b. indexing
c. comparison
d. None of the above
Answer: Indexing

16. In Boolean search algorithm the default precedence ordering of operations is _________
a. OR then AND then NOT
b. NOT then AND then OR
c. AND then NOT then OR
Answer: b. NOT then AND then OR

17. In Proximity searching algorithms the default direction of search is forward only.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a. True

18. What is the retrieved result of “Computer OR Information Not Data”?


a. selects all items that discuss computer and/or information that do not discuss data
b. selects all items that discuss computer and information that do not discuss data
c. selects all items that discuss computer or information that do not discuss data
Answer: a

19. What is the retrieved result of “Information AND Not (Retrieval AND Extraction)”?
a. selects all items that discuss information and/or retrieval that do not discuss extraction
b. selects all items that discuss information and do not discuss both of retrieval and extraction
c. selects all items that discuss information only
Answer: b

20. ___________ are typically short and focused on specific area of interest
a. queries
b. Profiles
c. Token
Answer: a

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21. The objective of ________ is to allow for a mapping between a user's specified need and the
items in the information database that will answer that need.
a. Search capabilities
b. Browse capabilities
c. Miscellaneous capabilities
Answer: a

22. What are the tokens of “fish and chips”


a. 1) fish 2) chips
b. 1) fish 2) and 3) chips
c. 1) fishandchips
Answer: a

23. Document parsing may have ____ format in IR system


a. multiple
b. one
c. maximum 4
d. None of the above
Answer: a
24. When applying porter algorithm rules, what will the following word be stemmed to:
Duplicatable would be ____________
a. Duplic
b. Duplicate
c. Duplicatable
d. None of the above
Answer: a.Duplic

25. When applying porter algorithm rules, what will the following word be stemmed to:
applicable would be ____________
a. Application
b. Applic
c. Applicability
d. None of the above
Answer: b. Applic

26. When applying porter algorithm rules, what will the following word be stemmed to:
eating would be ____________
a. Eat
b. Eats
c. Eating
d. None of the above
Answer: a. Eat

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