Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing - Test
  • 1. What is Computational Linguistics?
A) The process of translating languages using computational algorithms.
B) A field that combines linguistics and computer science to understand and model natural language.
C) A subfield of biology that analyzes genetic coding in organisms.
D) The study of how to program computers to understand human language.
  • 2. What is the main challenge in processing human language computationally?
A) Redundancy.
B) Ambiguity.
C) Syntax errors.
D) Data volume.
  • 3. Which type of machine learning is commonly used in NLP?
A) Genetic algorithms.
B) Deep learning.
C) Decision trees.
D) Support vector machines.
  • 4. What does POS tagging stand for in NLP?
A) Position-orientation system.
B) Personalized output selection.
C) Part-of-speech tagging.
D) Project object storage.
  • 5. What is the main objective of information extraction in NLP?
A) To perform machine translation.
B) To summarize a text document.
C) To classify sentences into categories.
D) To automatically extract structured information from unstructured text.
  • 6. Which programming language is commonly used for implementing NLP algorithms?
A) JavaScript.
B) C++.
C) Java.
D) Python.
  • 7. Which of the following is an unsupervised learning technique used in NLP?
A) Neural networks.
B) Clustering.
C) Support vector machines.
D) Decision trees.
  • 8. Book reviews classification is an example of what NLP task?
A) Text classification.
B) Sentiment analysis.
C) Machine translation.
D) Syntactic analysis.
  • 9. What is the purpose of machine translation in NLP?
A) To analyze the sentiment of a text.
B) To generate new text based on existing content.
C) To automatically translate text from one language to another.
D) To summarize text.
  • 10. Which type of algorithm is commonly used for named entity recognition?
A) Neural networks.
B) Support vector machines.
C) Conditional random fields (CRFs).
D) Genetic algorithms.
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