Which words are often stop words?
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89%
the, a, is
0%
computer
0%
algorithm
11%
database
When should stop words not be removed?
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89%
In phrases like to be or not to be
0%
Scientific texts
11%
Data compression
0%
Using images
What is normalization?
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90%
Making different forms of a word similar
0%
Removing short words
0%
Alphabetical ordering
10%
Text compression
What is case folding?
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100%
Convert all letters to lowercase
0%
Capitalize letters
0%
Remove letters
0%
Keep original
Drawback of case folding?
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90%
Lose distinction between Black and black
0%
Increase size
10%
Hard to read
0%
System slowdown
What is stemming?
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80%
Reducing a word to its root
20%
Deleting it
0%
Splitting text
0%
Translating
Most famous stemming algorithm for English:
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73%
Porter Stemmer
27%
RSA
0%
Huffman
0%
Soundex
How does Porter Stemmer work?
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64%
Remove suffixes based on rules
18%
Using a dictionary
18%
Using AI
0%
Translation
Purpose of stemming in retrieval?
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50%
Increase recall
20%
Increase precision only
30%
Reduce data size
0%
No use
Difference between lemmatization and stemming?
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73%
Lemmatization uses dictionary; stemming uses rules
9%
Opposite
9%
No difference
9%
Both delete
Why is stemming important for morphologically rich languages like Arabic?
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55%
Significantly improves recall
27%
Reduces storage only
9%
Increases precision only
9%
No effect
Which represents correct preprocessing steps?
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72%
Tokenization → Stop Words Removal → Stemming
17%
Stemming → Stop Words → Tokenization
6%
Normalization → Stemming → Translation
6%
Case Folding → Compression
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What is the correct definition of Precision?
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50%
The fraction of relevant documents that were retrieved
17%
The fraction of retrieved documents that are relevant
17%
The total number of relevant documents retrieved
17%
The ratio of relevant documents to the collection size
What does a perfect Recall score of 1.0 indicate?
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29%
No irrelevant documents were retrieved
29%
Every retrieved document is relevant
14%
All relevant documents were retrieved
29%
The system retrieved all documents in the collection
Which component is essential for the Cranfield evaluation paradigm?
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55%
Real-time user feedback
36%
A set of relevance judgments
0%
Social media data
9%
Mobile app interface
What is the primary use of the F1-Score?
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27%
To measure indexing speed
55%
To combine Precision and Recall into one metric
18%
To evaluate user satisfaction
0%
To calculate storage requirements
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What is the purpose of the Qrels file in a test collection?
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18%
To store the original documents
18%
To log user click-through rates
64%
To record relevance judgments for query-document pairs
0%
To contain the search engines source code
What does a high Precision value typically signify about a system?
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27%
It finds all relevant documents effectively
64%
Its results contain mostly relevant documents
0%
It has a very fast response time
9%
It can handle complex queries well
In the Fβ measure, if β is greater than 1, what is emphasized?
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10%
Precision is more important than Recall
50%
Recall is more important than Precision
40%
Both are equally important
0%
The measure is invalid
What is the main focus of effectiveness evaluation?
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20%
How quickly the system returns results
80%
The quality and relevance of returned documents
0%
How easy the system is to use
0%
The size of the document index
What are the three necessary components of a reusable test collection?
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0%
Users,Tasks, and Metrics
91%
Documents,Queries, and Relevance Judgments
9%
Algorithms,Indexes, and Rankings
0%
Hardware,Software, and Networks