IRS Assignment-I

1. Define IRS & goals.

Ans: An Informational Retrieval System is a system that is capable
of storing retrieval and maintenance of information.
It is the formal study of efficient and effective ways to extract the
right bit of information from a collection.
It consists of a software that facilitates a user to find the
information the user needs.
The goals of IRS are:
To minimize the user overhead for a user to find the needed
information.
Overhead of a user is the time required to find the information
needed, excluding the time for actual reading the relevant data.
2. Describe Objectives of IRS.
Ans: The Objectives are:
To minimize the user overhead for a user to find the needed
information.
Two major measures:
1) Precision: The ability to retrieve the top-ranked documents that
are relevant.
2) Recall: the ability to search all the relevant items from the
collection.
When a user decides to issue a search looking for information on a
topic then, the total database divides into 4 segments those are:
1) Relevant Retrieved
2) Non-Relevant Retrieved
3) Relevant Non-Retrieved
4) Non-Relevant Non-Retrieved
3. Explain browser capabilities.
Ans: Browse capabilities provide the user with the capability to
determine which items are of interest and select those to be
displayed.
There are two ways of displaying a summary of the items that are
associated with a query: line item status and data visualization.
4. Explain Catalogue & Indexing briefly.
Ans: Catalogue and indexing are the same thing. For IR systems,
in order to efficiently judge whether the documents from a corpus
match a given query, a pre-process called indexing is usually
applied. It is the way documents are managed in the collection.
To make searching more efficient, a retrieval system stores
documents in an abstract representation.
The indexing process includes several steps, which are described
as follows:
1) Tokenization
2) Stop Words Removal
3) Stemming
5. Explain signature file structure.
Ans: The signature can identify a file from within the file or be
kept in a separate file or database. In
document retrieval the signature file method competes with the
inverted index method to produce query results.
A signature block, or sig file is a block of text automatically
appended at the bottom of an email message.