Questions for Form B

1. In a Boolean IR system, documents are represented by:

2. The technical name for a characteristic of indexing, meaning that the index thoroughly covers all of the content of each document, is:

   a.Clustering. b.Exhaustivity. c.Precision. d.Specificity. e.Volatility

3. Which one of the following does not help with the actual retrieval process:

   a.Clustering. b.Digital tree. c.E measure. d.Inverted file. e.PAT tree. f.Search tree. g.Signature tree. h.Trie.

4. What is the difference between a natural language text-search system and a Boolean retrieval system?

5. Draw as much as you can of the taxonomic tree that describes the netlib archive - that is, give the types of things and their parts or constituents.