TU Wien:Grundlagen des Information Retrieval VU (Rauber)/Prüfung 2025-02-25
4P for writing down surname
Multiple choice
1. What are kinds of stemming? (4P) Smith Some name with a hyphen
2. ? (4P)
3. What's part of an IR test system? (4P)
Querys
Search engine
Documents
Relevance data
4. ? (4P)
Open questions
5. Explain following words in regards to IR: Token, Type, Term (10P)
6. Explain the steps of creating an inverted index. (10P)
7. (i) What are the two averages in Mean Average Precision (MAP)? (ii) Name one advantage and one disadvantage of using MAP instead of Precision and Recall. (10P)
8. What is Teleportation in regards to IR? What is it used for? (10P)
8 1/2. Explain differences and similarities of Word Embedding and Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). (20P)
9. What are two design guidelines in designing a search user interface? Explain how they can be implemented in practice. (10P)
10. What is pooling in IR? Why is it used? (10P)