INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Suggest what normalized form should be used for these words (including the word itself as a possibility)

a. Cos

b. Shite

c. contd

d. Hawaii

e. ORourke

The following pairs of words are stemmed to the same form by the Porter stemmer. Which pairs, would you argue, should not be conflated? Give a one-sentence reasoning that justifies your response.

a. abandon/abandonment

b. absorbency/absorbent

c. marketing/markets

d. university/universe

e. volume/volumes

A more-like-this query occurs when the user can click on a particular document in the result list and tell the search engine to find documents that are similar to this one. Describe which low-level components are used to answer this type of query and the sequence in which they are used.

Document filtering is an application that stores a large number of queries or user profiles and compares these profiles to every incoming document on a feed. Documents that are sufficiently similar to the profile are forwarded to that person via email or some other mechanism. Describe the architecture of a filtering engine and how it may differ from a search engine.

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