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1. The document is a model question paper for a third semester MSc Computer Science degree examination in Natural Language Processing. 2. It contains two sections - Section A contains 10 short answer questions worth 3 marks each. Section B contains 5 long answer questions worth 8 marks each, with students required to answer all questions. 3. The questions cover topics in computational linguistics, natural language understanding, semantics, syntax, information retrieval, machine translation, dialogue systems and other core areas of natural language processing.

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Model Question Paper

1. The document is a model question paper for a third semester MSc Computer Science degree examination in Natural Language Processing. 2. It contains two sections - Section A contains 10 short answer questions worth 3 marks each. Section B contains 5 long answer questions worth 8 marks each, with students required to answer all questions. 3. The questions cover topics in computational linguistics, natural language understanding, semantics, syntax, information retrieval, machine translation, dialogue systems and other core areas of natural language processing.

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THIRD SEMESTER M Sc Computer Science DEGREE EXAMINATION


MCSE34 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Time: 3 Hrs Max Marks: 60
Section A
Answer all ten questions. Each question carries three marks.

1. What is computational linguistics? How it differs from NLP?


2. Explain the difficulties in NLU.
3. Explain the applications of NLP.
4. What is meant by the semantics of a natural language, and how this differs
from the pragmatics?
5. What is the difference between phrase and sentence level construction?
6. Production rules with zero probability are problematic. Why?
7. 4-grams are better than trigrams for POS tagging. Is it true or false? Explain.
8. State the difference between homonymy and polysemy and give an example
of each.
9. Differentiate between top-down and bottom-up parsing.
10. Explain text realization.
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)

Section B
Answer all questions. Each question carries eight marks.

11. (a) Explain the architecture of an Information Retrieval system with a neat
diagram.

Or

(b) Explain morphology and morphological parsing.

12. (a) Write the FOPC representation for following sentences


i) All vegetarian restaurants serve vegetarian food.
ii) I arrived in New York.
iii) I ate a vegetable fried rice from Indian Coffee house.
iv) There is restaurant near Delhi which serves Italian food.
Or
(b) Describe the usage of PCFG in NLP.
13. (a) What is WSD. Explain the different approaches to tackle this problem.
Or

(b) i) Write short note on the terms discourse, coreference and Anaphora.

ii) Describe Hobbs algorithm.

14. (a) Explain NLG architecture.


Or
(b) Write short notes on
 Text mining
 Probabilistic Context Free Grammars

15. (a) What is machine translation? Explain different models of machine


translation.
Or
(b) i) How does a dialogue differ from an ordinary discourse?
ii) Explain the plan inference model for interpretation of Dialogue acts.

( 5*8=40)

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