Natural Language Processing CH5

Question 1

What is NLP?

Answer 1

a process of computer analysis of input provided in natural language, and conversion of this input into useful form of representation
- natural language processing
- a tool to represent information

Question 2

Components of NLP

Answer 2

1. Morphological analysis
2. Syntactic analysis
3. Semantic analysis
4. Pragmatic analysis

Question 3

Morphological Analysis

Answer 3

Analyzing words into their linguistic components
- car+PLU = cars
- give+PROG = giving

Question 4

Syntactic Analysis

Answer 4

a grammar checker
- a description of how words are grouped and connected to each other in a sentence

Question 5

Semantic Analysis

Answer 5

Assigning meanings to the structures created by syntactic analysis
- plays an important role selecting a word that can have different meanings

Question 6

Pragmatic Analysis

Answer 6

The study of speaker’s meaning, what speaker’s intentions and beliefs are:
- “Do you have the time” means What time is it?

Question 7

Applications of NLP

Answer 7

1. Machine Translation
2. Database Access
3. Information Retrieval