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Information retrieval
Contributed by: Mead
  • 1. Information retrieval is the process of obtaining relevant information from a collection of data. It involves searching for and retrieving data that is important, useful, and matches the user's information needs. Information retrieval systems utilize various techniques such as indexing, querying, and ranking to efficiently locate and present relevant information to users. These systems play a crucial role in making vast amounts of data accessible and manageable, enabling users to find, access, and make use of valuable information resources.

    What is a key component of information retrieval systems?
A) Decryption
B) Indexing
C) Encryption
D) Compression
  • 2. What is recall in information retrieval?
A) The ability of a system to retrieve all relevant documents.
B) The security of data storage.
C) The speed of information processing.
D) The accuracy of data retrieval.
  • 3. What is precision in information retrieval?
A) The type of information storage.
B) The fraction of retrieved documents that are relevant.
C) The speed of data retrieval.
D) The size of the data set.
  • 4. What is stemming in information retrieval?
A) Reducing words to their root form.
B) Analyzing data patterns.
C) Organizing data in a database.
D) Encrypting data for security.
  • 5. Which term refers to the process of extracting information from unstructured text?
A) Data encryption
B) Text mining
C) Data compression
D) Algorithm optimization
  • 6. Which term refers to the process of expanding a search query to retrieve more relevant results?
A) Data compression
B) Query expansion
C) Algorithm optimization
D) Text mining
  • 7. What is a term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) in information retrieval?
A) A data compression technique.
B) An encryption key
C) A statistical measure to evaluate the importance of a term in a document.
D) A data storage method.
  • 8. What is a Boolean search in information retrieval?
A) A search for multimedia files.
B) A search based on numeric values.
C) A search for encrypted data.
D) A search using operators like AND, OR, NOT to refine results.
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