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Assignment NPTEL NLP 8

This document is an assignment for a Natural Language Processing course consisting of 9 multiple-choice questions, totaling 10 marks. The questions cover concepts like hyponyms, hypernyms, similarity scores using algorithms, and specific word relationships. Answers and solutions are provided for each question, along with references to lecture materials.

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Assignment NPTEL NLP 8

This document is an assignment for a Natural Language Processing course consisting of 9 multiple-choice questions, totaling 10 marks. The questions cover concepts like hyponyms, hypernyms, similarity scores using algorithms, and specific word relationships. Answers and solutions are provided for each question, along with references to lecture materials.

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Natural Language Processing

Assignment- 8
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ

Number of Questions: 9 [Question 4 carries 2 marks] Total Marks: 10

Question 1:

Consider the following statements. Which of the following is/are True?

1. Car is a hyponym of vehicle.


2. Flower is a hypernym of rose.
3. Vehicle is a hyponym of car.
4. Tulip is a hypernym of flower.

Answer: 1, 2

Question 2:

Which of the following is False?

1. Hypernym: From concepts to superordinates


2. Hyponym: From concepts to subtypes
3. Troponym: From verbs to the verbs they entail
4. Part Meronym: From wholes to parts

Answer: 3

Solution: Refer to Week 8 Lecture 37


Question 3:
Two concepts along with their glosses are given below. Find the similarity score
between concepts “book” and “novel” using the Extended Lesk’s algorithm. (Note:
Do not consider the stop words.)

book: a set of written or printed pages bound together


novel: a long written work of fiction bound in pages

1. 2
2. 3
3. 5
4. 8

Answer: 2
Solution:
Common words are: written, pages, bound
Score = 1^2 + 1^2 + 1^2 =3
For Question 4 to 6, consider a hypothetical wordnet noun taxonomy with their
information content as shown in Figure 1. Question 4 carries 2 marks
Note: Use base 10 in logarithmic calculations

Question 4:
What is the Lin similarity between house and design?
a. 0.564
b. 0.433
c. 0.466
d. 0.473

Answer: d
Solution: (2×4.7)/(11.09+8.75) ≈ 0.473
Question 5:
What is the Resnic similarity between building and door?
a. 11.09
b. 8.30
c. 9.23
d. 4.70

Answer: b
Solution:

Question 6:
What is the Leacock–Chodorow similarity between building and design?
a. 0.398
b. 0.699
c. 0.097
d. None of the above

Answer: a

Solution:
LC similarity = −log pathlen(c1,c2)/2d = −log 4/(2×5) ≈ 0.398
For Question 7 to 9 consider the network of words for disambiguation of the word “light”
as shown in Figure 3. The hubs are “colors” and “lamps”. Note: Take the distance between
two words as the path length between them.

Question 7:
Compute the scores for (i) the hub “colors” and the component “white” and (ii) the hub
“colors” and the component “fixtures”.
a. 0.2, 0.25
b. 1.0, 0.0
c. 0.5, 0.25
d. None of the above

Answer: d
Solution:
(i) 1/(1+1) = 0.5
(ii) 0 as “colors” is not an ancestor of “fixtures”
Question 8:
What are the scores of the hubs “colors” and “lamps” respectively?

a. 0.6, 0.4
b. 0.20, 0.33
c. 2.5, 1.5
d. None of the above

Answer: c
Solution: Each component’s score is 0.5
Question 9:
Which is the most appropriate sense for the word “light”?

a. colors
b. lamps
c. both colors and lamps are appropriate
d. Not enough data

Answer: a
Solution: “colors” has the highest score

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