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Natural Language Processing Unit 4

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📚 Natural Language Processing
📖 Unit 4
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Natural Language Processing - Unit-4

1
Predicate-argument structure identifies
Aonly the word order
Bonly the spelling
Cwho did what to whom, when and where
Dthe font of the text
Correct Answer who did what to whom, when and where
2
Semantic role labeling (SRL) is the task of
Aassigning semantic roles to the constituents related to a predicate
Bsplitting words into morphemes
Cdetecting sentence boundaries
Dcomputing perplexity
Correct Answer assigning semantic roles to the constituents related to a predicate
3
PropBank is
Aa corpus that adds predicate-argument labels to the Penn Treebank
Ba speech corpus
Ca dictionary of synonyms
Da spelling checker
Correct Answer a corpus that adds predicate-argument labels to the Penn Treebank
4
In PropBank, Arg0 usually denotes
Athe location
Bthe time
Cthe instrument only
Dthe agent or proto-agent
Correct Answer the agent or proto-agent
5
In PropBank, Arg1 usually denotes
Athe agent
Bthe patient or theme
Cthe time
Dthe manner
Correct Answer the patient or theme
6
FrameNet is based on
Aframe semantics
Bfinite-state morphology
Cn-gram statistics
DChomsky Normal Form
Correct Answer frame semantics
7
In FrameNet, a frame is
Aa window of text
Ba parse tree
Ca word embedding
Da schematic representation of a situation with its participants
Correct Answer a schematic representation of a situation with its participants
8
The participants or roles of a frame are called
Asynsets
Blemmas
Ctokens
Dframe elements
Correct Answer frame elements
9
NomBank annotates the arguments of
Anouns
Bverbs only
Cadjectives only
Dpunctuation
Correct Answer nouns
10
In PropBank, ArgM labels mark
Athe main verb only
Badjunct modifiers such as time, location and manner
Cthe agent only
Dthe sentence end
Correct Answer adjunct modifiers such as time, location and manner
11
In 'John broke the window with a hammer', the role of 'hammer' is
Aagent
Btheme
Cinstrument
Dlocation
Correct Answer instrument
12
The entity that performs an action is called the
Atheme
Binstrument
Cgoal
Dagent
Correct Answer agent
13
In 'John broke the window', the role of 'the window' is
Aagent
Btheme (patient)
Cinstrument
Dtime
Correct Answer theme (patient)
14
Which feature is commonly used in SRL systems?
AThe path in the parse tree from the constituent to the predicate
BThe font of the sentence
CThe size of the corpus
DThe colour of the text
Correct Answer The path in the parse tree from the constituent to the predicate
15
A meaning representation is
Aa list of stop words
Ba spelling dictionary
Ca tokenizer
Da formal structure that captures the meaning of a sentence
Correct Answer a formal structure that captures the meaning of a sentence
16
First-order logic can be used as a meaning representation, for example
Alove(John, Mary) for 'John loves Mary'
BJohn + Mary
Clove = 5
DJohn.Mary
Correct Answer love(John, Mary) for 'John loves Mary'
17
Lambda calculus is used in semantic parsing to
Asplit words
Bcompose the meanings of smaller parts into the meaning of a whole
Cremove punctuation
Dcompress text
Correct Answer compose the meanings of smaller parts into the meaning of a whole
18
AMR stands for
AAbstract Meaning Representation
BAutomatic Morphology Recognition
CApplied Machine Reading
DAdvanced Model Regression
Correct Answer Abstract Meaning Representation
19
An AMR represents a sentence as
Aa flat list of words
Ba table of counts
Ca single number
Da rooted, directed, acyclic graph
Correct Answer a rooted, directed, acyclic graph
20
The principle of compositionality says that
Ameaning is unrelated to the words
Ball words have one meaning
Csyntax is never needed
Dthe meaning of a whole is derived from the meanings of its parts
Correct Answer the meaning of a whole is derived from the meanings of its parts
21
The GeoQuery dataset contains
Aimages of maps only
Bspeech recordings
Cquestions about US geography paired with logical forms
Dsource code
Correct Answer questions about US geography paired with logical forms
22
Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) is often used for
Aimage recognition
Btokenization only
Csemantic parsing
Dspeech synthesis
Correct Answer semantic parsing
23
In FrameNet, the verbs 'buy' and 'sell' evoke
Athe same commerce frame with different perspectives
Bunrelated frames
Cno frame
Da morphological frame
Correct Answer the same commerce frame with different perspectives
24
The SRL stage is usually applied after
Athe final evaluation
Bprinting the result
Csyntactic parsing
Ddownloading the corpus
Correct Answer syntactic parsing
25
Meaning representations are useful for
Afont rendering
Bdisk formatting
Cquestion answering and machine reading
Dnetwork routing
Correct Answer question answering and machine reading

Fill in the Blanks

26 SRL stands for Semantic Role __________.
Correct Answer Labeling
27 __________ adds predicate-argument labels to the Penn Treebank.
Correct Answer PropBank
28 FrameNet is based on __________ semantics.
Correct Answer frame
29 In PropBank, __________ usually denotes the proto-agent.
Correct Answer Arg0
30 In PropBank, Arg1 usually denotes the __________ or theme.
Correct Answer patient
31 The roles of the participants in a frame are called frame __________.
Correct Answer elements
32 NomBank annotates the arguments of __________.
Correct Answer nouns
33 In PropBank, ArgM labels mark adjunct __________ such as time and location.
Correct Answer modifiers
34 AMR stands for Abstract __________ Representation.
Correct Answer Meaning
35 An AMR is a rooted, directed, __________ graph.
Correct Answer acyclic
36 __________ calculus is used to compose meanings in semantic parsing.
Correct Answer Lambda
37 First-order __________ can be used as a formal meaning representation.
Correct Answer logic
38 In 'John broke the window with a hammer', the hammer is the __________.
Correct Answer instrument
39 The entity that performs the action is called the __________.
Correct Answer agent
40 CCG stands for Combinatory __________ Grammar.
Correct Answer Categorial
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