SIST/ET/M.

TECH(A)/SEM-2/PGIT(AI203A /2023-24
MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, WEST
BENGAL (FORMERLY WBUT)
School of Information Science and Technology
Department of Emerging Technology
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AUG- 2024
SIST/ET/M.TECH(A)/SEM-2/PGIrAD2034 /2023-24
PAPERNAME: Natural Language Processing PAPERCODE: PGIT(AD2034
PROGRAM NAME: M. tech (AI) SEMESTER: 2nd
Time:3 Hours Full Marks : 70
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
GROUP-A
(Multiple Choice Type Questions)
Choose the correct alternatives of the following 10 x1= 10
MARKS CO P0 BL
i) What is the primary goal of natural language processing? 1
11i1
Understanding and generating b. Translating languages
human language
C. Analyzing data patterns d. Creating conversational agents
iü) What is the process of converting words into their base or root form 1 2
calied?
Tokenization
NER
6Stemming
d. ;
C.
Part-of-speech tagging
What is the purpose of the Bag-of-Words (BoW) model in NLP? 3 2 1
To represent words as vectors b. To calculate word frequencies
To identify syntactic d. To perform sentiment analysis
dependencies
(iv) Which NLP library in Python provides a comprehensive set of tools 1 3 2 2
for natural language processing?
TensorFlow b. PyTorch
NLTK (Natural Language d. Scikit-learn
Toolkit)
v) Which of the following is an example of a stop word? 2
Noun b Verb
Adjective a) The
Which technique is used to predict the probability of a sequence of 1 4 2
words in a given context?
a.
Language modeling b Named entity recognition
C.
Sentiment analysis d, Machine translation

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vii) Which NLP task involves labeling words in a sentence with their 4 2 2
) respective grammatical categories?
a. Named entity recognition 6.) Part-of-speech tngging
c. Dependency parsing d. Sentiment analysis

(vii):Which technique aims to identify and extract the main idcas or topics 1 5 2 2
from a collection of documents?
Sentiment analysis (b.) Text summarization
C :Named entity recognition Document clustering

(ix)): Which method is used to calculate the similarity between two 5 2 3

documents based on their content?
Cosine sinmilarity b. Euclidean distance
C. Jaccard similarity d, Pearson correlation coefficient

x) Which method is used to break down a sentence into its grammatical I2 2 2

components?
a. Chunking b Lemmatization
C.
Stemming Tokenization

GROUP-B
(Short Answer Type Questions )
Answer the following 3x5= 15
MARKS CO PO BL
2.a. Examine the differences between discourse integration and pragmatic 1 21
analysis in NLP.
OR
Illustrate how morphological analysis can aid in text normalization for 5 1 2 2
NLP applications.
3.a. Compare inflectional and derivational morphology,providing 5 2 3 2
examples of how each affects word formation and meaning.
OR
Compare and contrast TreeBank and PropBank in terms of 22
structure, annotation principles,and use cases in NLP. their
2

4.a. Compare finite state transducers (FST) and finite state automata 3 22
(FSA).
OR
(4b.)Explain how smoothing techniques like Laplace 3 2 2
the performance of N-gram models in smoothing improve
language modeling.

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GROUP-C

(Long Answer Type Questions )

Answer the following 3x 15 =45
MARKS CO PO BL
5.gd) What is stemming in NLP, and how is it different from 12 2
lemmatization?
Explain tokenization and different tokenization techniques used in 2 2
NLP.
OR
5.b.i. What are the different phases of NLP? Explain. 1 2 2
ii. What are diferent types of ambiguity? Explain with examples. 2 2

6.a.i. What are different types of NER systems? 2,3 23

How Does Named Entity Recognition Work? 7 2,3 2 3
OR
(b.). Difference between Polysemy and Homonymy. What are the building 4+4 2,3 2 2
blocks of a Semantic System?
What is lexical semantics and mention different 3+4 2,3 2 2
steps involved in lexical semantics

7.ai Explain Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). What are the challenges 5+5 4 2 2
in creating and maintaining dictionaries for WSD?
ii. Explain elements of Semantic Analysis. 5 4 2 2
OR
. How does semantic parsing differ from syntactic parsing? 8 4 2 3

ji Explain Key features of Information Retrieval System. 8 4 2 3

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