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Fespurce Description (Theory)

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: ML-04
Time : Twa hours Full Marks : 40

Answer all questions.

1a. What
do you mean by a catalogue code ? Discuss
the fundamental principles for designing a
catalogue code, 12
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b, Vit
de you mean by FRBR 7 Discuss in bried the
various enfities defined
in i, Avi2

Za. What do you mean by 'EAD' 7 Discuss the core

alemants of EAD. I+12
or
2h. What do you understand by 'GILS' 7 What are its
policy and Technical Design Principles 7 Discuss

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(2)
GILS. 3+4+8
in brief the core elements of

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Write short notes on any two of the follow
{a Technical Interoperability
(b) Z39.50
(c) TE1
(d) CCF
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MASTER OF LIBRARY
& INFORMATION 5C, EXAMINATION, 2018
{1st Semester)
Resource Description (Theory)
Paper : ML - 04 .
Time : Two hours Full Marks : 40

Answer all questions.

1A What do you mean by a catalogue code 7 Discuss

the fundamental principles for designing & ca‘lé‘ugtie
code. 3412
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A al do you mean by FRER 7 Descuss
inbrief the various.
entilies defined in il 12

24, What is Dublin Coge Metadata Infliatives 7 Discuss its

core elements. 3412
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VB_/':’JhaI do you understand by 'GILS"
T What are its policy
and Technical Design Principles7 Discuss in brief the
core elements of GILS. Jed+B

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(2) Technical Interoperability
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(d) AACR,R vs RDA
 Information Retricval - |
Course : ML - 04
Time : Two hours
Full Marks : 50

Answer all questions.

1A.(a) State your idea on the following concepts :

(i) Information retrieval
(ii) Data retrieval
(iii)Document retrieval
(b) Draw a diagram of a modern information
system,
(c) Distinguish between Natural language and
Indexing language. .
(d) Discuss on faceted search. 6+34343 .
OR
1B. (a) What is controlled vocabulary ?
(b) What are the different types of controlled
vocabulary ? Discuss with examples.
(c) Make a comparative study among different types
of controlled vocabulary.
(d) What are the advantages and disadvantages of
Chain procedure ?
(Turn Over)
 (2)
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(e) State the principles of PRECIS.
(LS[') ?
2A.(a) What is Latent Semantic Inde}xing
LST.
(b) State the mathematical technique used in
(c) Discuss the application areas of LSI..
(d) What are the challenges to LSI? 3+6+343
OR
2B. (a) Whatare the limitations of traditional IR models?'
(b) Describe various search techniques used in
Berrypicking model.
(c) Discuss various design methodology for
Berrypicking search interface.
(d) Compare between Berrypicking model and
Information Foraging Theory (IFT). 3+5+4+3

3A.(a) What do you understand by relevance feedback?

(b) What are different types of relevance feedback?
(c) What is query expansion ?
(d) Discuss different types of query expansion.
(e) State the applications of query expansion.
4+2+3+3+43
OR
3B. (a) State the significance of Cranfield tests.
(b) Discuss different criteria for IR evaluation
(c) Write a note on TREC,
5+5+5
 (3)

4A.(a) Two retrieval systems, X and Y, are being

compared. Both are given the same query, applied
to a collection of 1500 documents. System X
returns 400 documents, of which 40 are relevant
to the query. System Y returns 30 coduments, of
which 15 are relevant to the query. Within the
whole collection there are in fact 50 documents
relevant to the query.
Tabulate the results for each system, and compute
the precision and recall for both X and Y. Show
your working. 5
OR
4B. Write short notes on any one of the following: 5x1=5
(a) tf-idf
(b) Information need
(c¢) Information visualization
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Time: Two Hours Full Marks: 50

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the margin indicate full marks.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Answer any four questions.
1. Describe the role of information centers in information transfer cycle with a suitable diagram.
12"
2. What do you understand by an ‘Information Retrieval System'? Describe different subsystems of an
Information Retrieval System with a suitable diagram. 22410
3. Give a mathematical definition of IR models. Explain Term Frequency (TF) and Inverse Document
Frequency (IDF). What is document length normalization? 24842'%
4. What are the disadvantages of Boolean model of Information Retrieval? Describe the Vector Space
model. 2410
1. What is meant by Information Behavior? Discuss Wilson's models on Information Behavior. 2" +10
2. State your idea on Information Seeking. Describe ‘Everyday Life Information Secking’ model as
developed by Savolainen. 22410
 MASTER OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EXAMINATION,
2022
(1" Semester)
Information Retrieval-1
Paper: ML - 04

Full Marks: 50
Time: Two hours
Answer all the questions
What are ecmsysum, :l;i )
1A :l:::: yd;: eyn'\o:‘x mean by an online IR system. What are its functions?

OR

\B. used in a Text Retrieval System? Mention different

What are the Word-Association techniquesstand 5+3+2
by Clustering in IR?
components of a text. What do you under

in the general structure of a bibl

c record
iographi
2A. Whatare different kinds of database? Expla examp les the conce pt of integrated database
in with suitable
according to 1SO 2709 format. Expla 3+4+8
approach. OR
term relationships of a
are its objectives? Explain different
9B. What is vocabulary control? What 24345

thesaurus.

scarching? Explain the co ncept

ean sear ch mode l. Wha t are the limitations of Boolean 5+3+2
3A. Explain Bool
Processing Model.
of term 'vectors’ in the Vector
OR
347
es.
ain different searching techniqu
$B. Whatis a search strategy? Expl
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behaviour model of Ellis.
info rmat ion seek ing? Expl ain the information seeking
#A Whatis
OR
5+5
ain Recall and Precision.
ation of an IR system. Expl
4B, State the criteria for evalu:
5x2=10
two of the following:
5. Write short notes on any
cycle
a) Information transfer
orm ati on beh avi our and informat; on practice
b) Inf seeking
¢ Everyday life information
d) MEDLARS l Language
¢) Controlled vs Natura
 Ex/ML-04/2023
MASTER OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE
ExamiNamion,
2023
(1t Year, st Semester)
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
- |
Parven
— ML-04
Time : Two hours Full Marks : 50
Answer
all the questions.
% 8) Describe different components of an Information
Retrieval System (IRS). What are the functions of an
IRS? What do you understand by controlled and
natural indexing? 5+6+4
OR
b) What do you understand by vocabularly control?
How are the terms displayed in a thesaurus?
Describe different criteria for evaluating a thesaurus.
34745
8) What are reference databases? Describe different
data formats available in MARC 21. What are
different components of a simple CCF record?
3+8+4
OR
b) What is information practice? Explain everyday life
information secking (ELIS). What is a
thesaurofacet? Describe the associative relationship
of terms in thesaurus. 3+5+3+4
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8) Explain effectiveness and efficiency. What do you
understand by recall and precision? Describe
Cranfield 1 evaluation test of IRS. 4rd47
OR
b) What is information need? Describe information
needs in scientific and technological research.
Explain Kulthau's model of information seeking.
3+5+7
‘Write short notes on any one : Sx]=5
#) TREC retrieval experiment
b) Boolean
model of searching
¢€) In-house
and online IRS
 ExML-042024
MASTER OF LinRARY AND INFORMATION
SCTENCE:
Examivarion,
2024
(18t Year, 15t Semester)
InFormaTiON RETRIEVAL - |
Parer
- ML-04
Time : Two hours Full Marks : 50
Answer
all the questions.
1. a) Explain Contextual Query Langusge (CQL).
Discuss the different components of an information
retricval system. What do you understand by
information transfer cycle? 4547
OrR
b) State in brief the evolution of information retrieval.
‘What are ectosystem and endosystem? What are the
functions of an information retrieval system?
6+3+6
2. s) What do you understind by subject analysis?
Explain the role of dlassification
in analysing and
represcnting
ssbjocts in the context of R, 6+0
OR
b) Discuss different boolean operstors
with suitable
examples. Explain proximity and truncated scarch
techniques. Discuss BIBFRAME in the cotext of
L A7
[ Turs over

2]
3. a) Explain the compeehensive
model of information
seeking (CMIS) propased by 1.D. Johmson (1997).
Discuss the factors that affect the information
bebaviour of individuals. What do you usderstand
by recall and precision? ara7
OR
b) State the differences between information behaviour

information seeking (ELIS). Discuss Cranfield [ of

IR evalustion test. 44348
4. Write short note on sy one : Sx1e5
u) Probabilistic retrieval model
b) Semastic search
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