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Computational linguistics
Contributed by: Wilkins
  • 1. Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that combines linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence to analyze, model, and process natural language data. It focuses on developing algorithms and models to understand and generate human language using computers. Computational linguists work on various tasks such as natural language processing, machine translation, sentiment analysis, speech recognition, and information retrieval. By studying the underlying structures and patterns of language, computational linguistics helps improve communication between humans and machines, enabling applications such as language understanding, chatbots, and automated translation services.

    Which of the following is a common application of computational linguistics?
A) Graphic design
B) Civil engineering
C) Chemical analysis
D) Machine translation
  • 2. What is syntactic parsing in computational linguistics?
A) Studying the historical development of languages
B) Detecting emotions in text
C) Creating new languages from scratch
D) Analyzing the grammatical structure of a sentence
  • 3. What is meant by the term 'NLP' in computational linguistics?
A) Neural Linguistic Programming
B) Numeric Language Processing
C) New Language Patterns
D) Natural Language Processing
  • 4. What is an example of a commonly used parser in computational linguistics?
A) Stanford Parser
B) Google Chrome
C) Adobe Photoshop
D) Microsoft Excel
  • 5. What is disambiguation in computational linguistics?
A) Transliterating text between different scripts
B) Creating ambiguous language constructs
C) Encrypting text for security purposes
D) Resolving the meaning of a word with multiple possible interpretations in context
  • 6. What is syntax in the context of computational linguistics?
A) The rules for combining words into grammatically correct sentences
B) The process of identifying word meanings
C) The study of ancient languages
D) The analysis of regional dialects
  • 7. What is lemmatization in computational linguistics?
A) Expanding contractions
B) Reducing words to their base or root form
C) Concatenating multiple words into one
D) Adding suffixes to words
  • 8. What is a corpus in computational linguistics?
A) A collection of text for linguistic analysis
B) A financial transaction record
C) A type of data encryption
D) A musical composition
  • 9. What is the significance of named entity recognition in computational linguistics?
A) Classifying animals based on their names
B) Helps in extracting valuable information from text
C) Generating fictional character names
D) Identifying incorrect grammar usage
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