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CIT 841 TMA 4 Quiz Question

This document contains 20 multiple choice quiz questions about information retrieval systems. The questions cover topics like designing user profiles, online retrieval systems, query expansion, search engines, popular search engines like Google, specifying user profiles, advantages of different retrieval models, levels of query formulation, what automated retrieval systems are used for, digital libraries, factors that affect retrieval, advantages of different models, what models represent, statistical language models, purposes of query expansion, attributes of query structures, formulating queries, what user profiles keep, and using user profiles to filter search results.

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CIT 841 TMA 4 Quiz Question

This document contains 20 multiple choice quiz questions about information retrieval systems. The questions cover topics like designing user profiles, online retrieval systems, query expansion, search engines, popular search engines like Google, specifying user profiles, advantages of different retrieval models, levels of query formulation, what automated retrieval systems are used for, digital libraries, factors that affect retrieval, advantages of different models, what models represent, statistical language models, purposes of query expansion, attributes of query structures, formulating queries, what user profiles keep, and using user profiles to filter search results.

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21/8/2014 Quiz Question

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TMA Instruction TMA: TMA4/CIT841
Matric Number: NOU147214829
Course Detail
CIT841 - Advanced Information Storage and Retrieval
TMA Calendar Dr Oyebanji Omotayo (ooyebanji@noun.edu.ng )
Grading

Message Board 1 One way to design a pragmatic personalized user profile is to personalize web search engines using --- contextual user
profiles
Quick Info
onto
Instructor Message
ontology-mapped
Quiz Note
ontology-based
Quiz Tip - 1
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Quix Tip - 2
2 … is an example of a sophisticated on-line retrieval system

MEDICINE
RETRIEVAL
ONLINE
MEDLINE

3 When the retrieval system is on-line, it is possible for the user to change his request (query expansion) during one
search session in the light of a sample retrieval, thereby, it is hoped, improving the subsequent retrieval run. Such a
procedure is commonly referred to as

answer
comment
reaction
feedback

4 A search engine is ---

to search for information


a tool designed to search for documents
a tool designed to search for information
a tool described to search for information

5 … is a common search engine

Get
Fetch
Yahoo
Look

6 Google is a popular ---

system
application
system software
search engine

7 A way to specify --- is by user feedback

user system
user name
user address
user profile

8 Multiple document representations is an advantage of the --- Network Model

Spiral
Activity
Inference

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Space

9 In query formulation, generally three levels: a conceptual, --- and string level can be differentiated

logical
real
linguistic
physical

10 What are automated information retrieval systems used for?

to reduce information
to reduce information overload
to describe information overload
to reduce information overwoork

11 A digital --- enables users to interact effectively with information distributed across a network

system
software
library
book

12 What affects effective retrieval of information?

the user task alone


logical view of documents

the user task and the logical view of the documents


the user logical view

13 … is an advantage of the Inference Network Model

multiple document searches


multiple document execution
multiple document applicability
multiple document representations

14 A --- is an abstract away from the real world, which uses a branch of mathematics and possibly a metaphor for
searching

design
format
model
mode

15 A statistical language model is ---

a probability distribution over all possible statements or other linguistic units in a language
a probability distribution over all possible sentences or other linguistic units in a language
a probability distribution over all possible sentences or other units in a language
a probability mathematics over all possible sentences or other linguistic units in a language

16 The purpose of query expansion is to make the query resemble more closely the relevant documents and thus, to
retrieve those --- documents

suitable
concerned
relevant
reference

17 The main attribute of query structures is the ---

search keys
weightings of the search
weightings of the keys
weightings of the search keys

18 … must be formulated based on search keys given by the user as an essential part of successful information retrieval

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Statement
Fact
Idea
Query

19 User profile keeps ---

data
facts
user’s data that are used for query expansion
user’s data that are used for query

20 One common and important use for a user profile is found in the field of online searching for information retrieval, where
the profile is used to --- results to yield only relevant information to a certain user as search results

disect
divide
filter
map

Submit

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