Information Retrieval & Text Mining — Exam March 2, 2026
23 exam-style questions grouped by topic with worked solutions
Step-through animation of building and querying a permuterm index
Damerau-Levenshtein & Levenshtein matrix built cell by cell
Build the P@k/R@k table, then watch interpolation scan bottom to top
Step through parameter estimation: vocabulary, priors, counts, smoothing
Single-link & complete-link clustering with distance matrix updates