Natural Language Processing: Master Human Language with Computers

Question 1

Which of the following tasks is NOT commonly performed in text mining?

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Translating a text from one language to another

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Extracting structured information from unstructured text

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Identifying the topics discussed in a text

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Classifying the sentiment expressed in a text

Question 2

What is the primary aim of sentiment analysis?

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To determine the emotional tone or opinion expressed in a text

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To identify the main topics discussed in a text

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To extract specific factual information from a text

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To translate a text from one language to another

Question 3

Which of the following machine learning algorithms is most commonly used for machine translation?

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Transformer neural network

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Support Vector Machine

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Naive Bayes

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K-Nearest Neighbors

Question 4

What is the main purpose of using a stop word list in text processing?

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To remove common words that add little meaning to a text

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To identify the most frequently occurring words in a text

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To extract named entities from a text

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To reduce the dimensionality of text data

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a typical component of an NLP pipeline?

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Convolutional neural network for image processing

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Tokenization

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Lemmatization

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Feature extraction

Question 6

In text mining, which fundamental technique involves identifying and extracting specific types of entities, such as names, locations, and organizations?

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Named entity recognition

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Sentiment analysis

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Machine translation

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Natural language generation

Question 7

In natural language processing (NLP), what is the primary purpose of a stop word list?

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To exclude common words that carry minimal meaning, reducing noise in text analysis

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To highlight important keywords and phrases in a document

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To enhance the accuracy of sentiment analysis models by focusing on significant words

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To improve the quality of machine translation by removing unnecessary words

Question 8

Which supervised learning algorithm is commonly employed for sentiment analysis, capable of classifying text as positive, negative, or neutral?

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Naive Bayes

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k-Means clustering

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Principal component analysis

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Markov chain

Question 9

Which metric is specifically designed to measure the accuracy of machine translation models by comparing generated translations to human-generated references?

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BLEU metric

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Sentiment analysis metric

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Clustering evaluation metric

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Named entity recognition metric

Question 10

In NLP, natural language generation is primarily concerned with:

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Producing text from structured data, such as generating summaries or responses

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Understanding the meaning of human language

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Translating text from one language to another

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Recognizing spoken words and converting them to text

Question 11

Which library is widely used for NLP tasks in Python, providing a comprehensive set of tools for text processing, machine learning, and data manipulation?

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NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit), specifically tailored for NLP

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NumPy, primarily focused on numerical operations

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scikit-learn, known for machine learning algorithms

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TensorFlow, primarily designed for deep learning tasks

Question 12

Which of the following is **not** a common technique used in Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

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Image recognition

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Text mining

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Sentiment analysis

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Machine translation

Question 13

What is the primary purpose of text mining?

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To extract valuable information from unstructured text data

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To analyze the sentiment expressed in a text

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To translate text from one language to another

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To identify key phrases and topics in a text

Question 14

What is the role of tokenization in NLP?

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Breaking down a text into individual units (tokens)

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Identifying the part of speech of each token

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Determining the semantic meaning of tokens

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Creating a dependency tree of the tokens

Question 15

Which of the following is **not** a potential application of NLP?

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Medical diagnosis

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Spam filtering

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Chatbots

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Speech recognition

Question 16

Which of the following components is NOT typically found in a Named Entity Recognition (NER) system?

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Natural Language Inference

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Tokenization

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Part-of-speech tagging

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Named Entity Extraction

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a core subtopic within the Natural Language Processing unit?

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Data Visualization

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Text Mining

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Machine Translation

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Natural Language Processing Applications

Question 18

Which of the following topics is not covered in the Natural Language Processing unit?

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Database Management

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Introduction to Natural Language Processing

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Machine Translation

Question 19

In machine translation evaluation, what is the purpose of the BLEU metric?

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Assessing translation quality by comparing it to human references

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Measuring the compression level of the translated text

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Estimating the time complexity of the translation process

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Finding the most commonly used words in the translated text

Question 20

What is the role of stop word lists in text preprocessing?

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Removing common words that minimally contribute to meaning

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Identifying keywords and concepts

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Reducing the dimensionality of the text data

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Improving the precision of NLP models

Question 21

What is the main objective of stemming in text mining?

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Reducing words to their root form

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Eliminating prefixes and suffixes from words

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Finding synonyms and antonyms

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Standardizing word spelling

Question 22

What is a crucial distinction between supervised and unsupervised learning in NLP?

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Supervised learning requires labeled data, while unsupervised learning does not

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Unsupervised learning is more computationally demanding than supervised learning

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Supervised learning models are limited to small datasets, while unsupervised learning models can handle large ones

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Unsupervised learning models are inherently more precise than supervised learning models

Question 23

Which factor is NOT crucial to consider when designing an NLP system?

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The aesthetics of the user interface

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The domain-specific vocabulary and jargon used

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The desired accuracy and performance metrics

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The computational resources available

Question 24

Which evaluation metric is commonly used in NLP to measure the performance of machine translation systems?

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BLEU score

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F1 score

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Accuracy

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Precision

Question 25

Which ethical consideration is not relevant to the development and deployment of NLP systems?

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Cost and efficiency

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Privacy and data protection

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Bias and fairness

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Accountability and responsibility

Question 26

What is a major challenge associated with using deep learning models in Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

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Deep learning models for NLP need a lot of computing power and memory to train and run.

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Deep learning models for NLP are always accurate and reliable, no matter how good the training data is.

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Deep learning models for NLP can easily find long-distance relationships between words and phrases in text.

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Deep learning models for NLP can be trained well even on small datasets.

Question 27

What is the main goal of natural language generation in NLP?

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Create human-like text from data or knowledge

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Extract knowledge from text

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Analyze the sentiment of text

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Convert speech to text

Question 28

Which of the following is a fundamental technique used in natural language processing (NLP)?

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Tokenization

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Eigenvalue computation

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Matrix decomposition

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Data cleaning

Question 29

In text mining, what is the ultimate objective?

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Extracting valuable insights and patterns from unstructured text data

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Classifying documents into predefined categories

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Optimizing search engine performance

Question 30

When translating text from one language to another, what NLP task is being performed?

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Machine translation

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Text summarization

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Part-of-speech tagging

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Named entity recognition

Question 31

In the context of NLP, what does the acronym 'POS' represent?

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Part-of-speech

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Point-of-sale

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Proof-of-stake

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Position

Question 32

In an NLP application, what is the purpose of using a stopword list?

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To eliminate common words that contribute minimal semantic value

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To identify the most frequently used terms in a document

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To break down sentences into individual words

Question 33

Which NLP method is specifically designed to analyze sentiment expressed in text?

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Sentiment analysis

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Named entity recognition

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Morphological analysis

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Part-of-speech tagging

Question 34

What is the primary aim of natural language understanding (NLU)?

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To extract meaningful information from unstructured text data

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To generate natural language text from structured data

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To detect patterns in audio data

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To translate text between different languages

Question 35

Which of the following is NOT a core component of a typical NLP pipeline?

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Audio processing

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Tokenization

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Feature extraction

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Model evaluation