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A morpheme is
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the smallest meaningful unit of a language
☑ MCQ PRACTICE
Natural Language Processing Unit 1
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Natural Language Processing - Unit-1
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A free morpheme is one that
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can stand alone as a word
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Which of the following is a bound morpheme?
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-ing
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Inflectional morphology
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changes the grammatical form of a word, such as number or tense
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Derivational morphology
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creates new words, often changing the word category
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The base form to which affixes are attached is called the
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stem
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A lemma is
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the canonical dictionary form of a word
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Tokenization is the process of
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splitting text into tokens such as words and punctuation
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A lexeme is
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an abstract unit of meaning that groups together related word forms
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Which of the following is an agglutinative language?
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Turkish
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In an agglutinative language, words are formed by
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joining many morphemes, each usually carrying one meaning
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The English past tense form 'went' of the verb 'go' is an example of
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an irregular form
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Finite-state transducers are widely used in morphology for
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morphological analysis and generation
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Two-level morphology was proposed by
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Koskenniemi
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A dictionary lookup approach to morphology
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stores all the word forms of the language in a lexicon
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Morphology induction is the task of
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learning the morphological structure of a language from unannotated text
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Stemming differs from lemmatization because stemming
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usually strips affixes crudely and may not give a real word
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The Porter stemmer is
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a rule-based suffix-stripping algorithm
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Sentence boundary detection is difficult mainly because
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the period can also mark abbreviations and decimal numbers
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Topic segmentation divides a document into
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topically coherent segments
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Hidden Markov Models used for boundary detection are examples of
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generative sequence classification
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In discriminative local classification, each candidate boundary is
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classified independently using features of its context
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Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are
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discriminative sequence models
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Which of the following is a lexical feature for sentence boundary detection?
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The word before and after the punctuation mark
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Boundary detection systems are commonly evaluated using
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precision, recall and F-measure
Fill in the Blanks
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The smallest meaningful unit of a language is called a __________.
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morpheme
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A morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word is called a __________ morpheme.
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bound
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__________ morphology creates new words, for example happy to happiness.
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Derivational
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__________ morphology expresses grammatical features such as plural and tense.
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Inflectional
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Splitting text into words and punctuation is called __________.
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tokenization
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The dictionary form of a word is called its __________.
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lemma
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Turkish is an __________ language in which many morphemes are joined together.
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agglutinative
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Two-level morphology was proposed by __________.
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Koskenniemi
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__________ is a crude process of removing suffixes from words.
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Stemming
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The __________ stemmer is a well-known suffix-stripping algorithm.
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Porter
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Detecting where sentences end is called sentence __________ detection.
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boundary
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Dividing a document into topically coherent parts is called __________ segmentation.
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topic
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Hidden Markov Models are __________ models of sequences.
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generative
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CRF stands for Conditional __________ Field.
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Random
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Finite-state __________ are used for morphological analysis and generation.
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transducers