NLP Important Questions
Unit – 1:
• Applications of NLP
• Difference between NLU and NLG
• Phases in NLP
• Issues and challenges in NLP
• Morphological Analysis
• Morphological Model
o Unification
o Functional
o Finite state
• Top-down & bottom-up in Document structure
o Along with Steps and Challenges in Document structure
• Morphemes
o Bonded
o Derivational
o Inflectional
Unit – 2:
• Syntax Analysis (Definition)
• TreeBank: data-driven approach to syntax analysis
• Parsing:
o Shallow Parsing
o Top-Down & Bottom-up
o Shift reduce
o CYK
• Ambiguity Resolution
o Statistical
o Generative
o Probabilistic CFG(PCFG)
o Rules-Based
• Multilingual issues
• Context Free Grammer (CFG)
o Difference between CFG and PCFG
• Dependency Parsing
Unit – 3:
• Semantic Interpretation
o Interpreting a given sentence
o Components of Semantic Interpretation
• System Paradigms
• Word Sense (with example)
• Lesk Algorithm (with example)
• Word sense disambiguation (with example)
Unit – 4:
• Predicate-Argument structure (definition and diagram)
o Construct a argument for a given sentence
o Software resources
• FrameNet
o Lexical Unit
o Frame elements
o Definition
• PropBank
• Compare PropBank with FrameNet
• WordNet (definition)
o How it is used in semantic analysis
• Semantic role labelling
• Phase structure grammar
o Compare with dependency grammar
o Head word
o Content word
• Combinatory categorical grammar
• Tree-adjoining grammar (TAG)
• Software used for predicate-argument
• Meaning Representation
o ATIS, GeoQuery, Clang
o Rule-based, supervised (definition)
o Comparison
o Software used
Unit – 5:
• N-Gram
• Language Model
o Evaluation (Perplexity)
o How is it calculated and interpreted
• Parameter estimation
o Likelihood and Bayesian Parameter
• Language Model Adaptation
o Statistical & Dynamic
• Types of Language Models
o Class-based, variable length, discriminative & Neural network
• Language Specific problems
• Cross lingual & Multilingual
o Definition & comparison of both
o Block diagrams