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