RAJEEV GANDHI MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF CSE(DATA SCIENCE)
SUBJECT: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING QUESTION BANK UNIT:I
1 or 2 Marks Questions
1. What is the difference between scientific and technological motivations for
developing computational models of language?
2. Define text-based applications and dialogue-based applications in NLP.
3. Distinguish between Black Box evaluation and Glass Box evaluation.
4. How does the ELIZA program operate?
5. Define Morphological Knowledge.
6. What is the difference between Syntactic Knowledge and Semantic Knowledge?
7. Define Pragmatic Knowledge and Discourse Knowledge.
8. What is a "Logical Form" in the context of language understanding?
9. What is the function of a parser in an NLP system?
10. Explain the difference between Inflectional and Derivational morphology.
11. What are Open Class and Closed Class words?
12. Define "Head" and "Complement" in the context of phrases.
13. Differentiate between Count Nouns and Mass Nouns.
14. What are Transitive and Intransitive verbs?
15. What are Relative Clauses?
5 Marks Questions
1. Compare the scientific and technological motivations for research in Natural
Language Understanding.
2. Describe the four academic disciplines that study language and the typical problems
they address.
3. Distinguish between Text-based applications and Dialogue-based applications with
examples.
4. Why is simple keyword matching insufficient for true natural language
understanding?
5. Explain the difference between Speech Recognition and Language Understanding.
6. Compare "Black Box" evaluation and "Glass Box" evaluation in NLP systems.
7. Describe the algorithm and data structures used by the ELIZA program.
8. Why does ELIZA appear intelligent despite being a "collection of tricks"?
9. How can you demonstrate that ELIZA does not actually understand language?
10. Define Phonetic, Morphological, and Syntactic knowledge.
11. Define Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse knowledge.
12. Explain the distinction between Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics using examples.
13. Why are formal representation languages necessary for NLP?
14. Analyze the structural ambiguity in the sentence "Rice flies like sand."
RAJEEV GANDHI MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF CSE(DATA SCIENCE)
SUBJECT: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING QUESTION BANK UNIT:I
15. Describe the general organization of a Natural Language Understanding System.
16. Explain the benefits of combining Syntactic and Semantic processing.
17. Differentiate between Inflectional and Derivational morphology.
18. Distinguish between Open Class and Closed Class words.
19. How can you distinguish between Adjectives and Noun Modifiers?
20. Describe the elements of a Simple Noun Phrase.
21. Explain the difference between Count Nouns and Mass Nouns.
22. Classify the different types of Determiners.
23. Describe the features encoded in the English Pronoun System.
24. Explain the formation of the Basic and Progressive Tenses in English.
25. Define Transitive, Intransitive, and Bitransitive verbs.
26. Explain the construction of Passive sentences.
27. How can you distinguish a Particle from a Preposition?
28. Describe three different types of Clausal Complements.
29. Explain the structure and types of Relative Clauses.
30. Discuss the different functions of Adverbial Phrases.
