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Question1
Considertheinstantiationofthevectorspacemodelwheredocumentsandqueriesare
representedastermfrequencyvectors.Assumewehavethefollowingqueryandtwo
documents:

Q=futureofonlineeducation
D1=Courseraisshapingthefutureofonlineeducationonlineeducationisaffordable.
D2=Inthefuture,onlineeducationwilldominate.

LetV(X)=[c1c2c3c4]representapartofthetermfrequencyvectorfordocumentorqueryX,
wherec1,c2,c3,andc4arethetermweightscorrespondingtofuture,of,online,and
education,respectively.Whichofthefollowingistrue:
V(Q)=[1111]V(D1)=[1122]V(D2)=[1011]
V(Q)=[1111]V(D1)=[1111]V(D2)=[1011]
V(Q)=[1111]V(D1)=[1122]V(D2)=[1111]

Question2
Considerthesamescenarioasinquestion(1)withthedotproductasthesimilaritymeasure.
Whichofthefollowingisthetrue:
Sim(Q,D1)=6Sim(Q,D2)=3
Sim(Q,D1)=6Sim(Q,D2)=4
Sim(Q,D1)=4Sim(Q,D2)=3

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Question3
AssumewehavetwodocumentswiththesamerawTFforallthequerywords(i.e.thequery
wordsappearwiththesamefrequencyinbothdocuments).Then,usingtheOkapi/BM25
retrievalfunction,thelongerdocumentwillhavealowerscore.
True
False

Question4
IfweremovethedocumentlengthnormalizationtermfromtheOkapi/BM25retrievalfunction,
andhavetwodocumentswiththesamerawTFforallthequerywords,thenthelonger
documentwillhaveahigherscore.
False
True

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