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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) Machine translation
C) Chemical analysis
D) Graphic design
  • 2. What is syntactic parsing in computational linguistics?
A) Detecting emotions in text
B) Creating new languages from scratch
C) Analyzing the grammatical structure of a sentence
D) Studying the historical development of languages
  • 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) Creating ambiguous language constructs
B) Resolving the meaning of a word with multiple possible interpretations in context
C) Encrypting text for security purposes
D) Transliterating text between different scripts
  • 5. What is a corpus in computational linguistics?
A) A type of data encryption
B) A collection of text for linguistic analysis
C) A musical composition
D) A financial transaction record
  • 6. What is an example of a commonly used parser in computational linguistics?
A) Adobe Photoshop
B) Microsoft Excel
C) Google Chrome
D) Stanford Parser
  • 7. What is syntax in the context of computational linguistics?
A) The analysis of regional dialects
B) The process of identifying word meanings
C) The rules for combining words into grammatically correct sentences
D) The study of ancient languages
  • 8. 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
  • 9. What is the significance of named entity recognition in computational linguistics?
A) Helps in extracting valuable information from text
B) Classifying animals based on their names
C) Generating fictional character names
D) Identifying incorrect grammar usage
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