O.BÁFÉ.MI AWÓLÓ.WÒ.

UNIVERSITY
ILÉ-IFÈ., NIGERIA
FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
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CPE 510: Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Its

Applications
Rain Semester, 2021-2022 Session

GROUP ASSIGNMENT 01: Basic issues

Contents
1 TASK 01 2

2 TASK 02 2

3 TASK 03 2

INSTRUCTION FOR THE ASSIGNMENT

1. You are to carry out the tasks in this assignment within your own Group.
2. YOU ARE TO UPLOAD: A PDF version of your report. The hardcopy should
also be submitted after the upload.
3. YOU ARE TO UPLOAD: A PDF version of the scanned copy of the attendance
sheet of the meetings of your Group.

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1 TASK 01

(i.) Select any three (3) standard textbooks on “Human Language Processing” or “Nat-
ural Language Processing” and interrogate their definition or explanation for key
terms in the subject-matter of this course. That is: (i) Language, (ii) Human or
Natural, and (iii) Processing.

(ii.) Discuss and provide your views on the subject-matter of “Human Language Pro-
cessing” in terms of: (i) The object of study, (ii) The Kind of study and (iii) The
purpose of study.

(iii.) Interrogate the following terms as used in conventional literature in the context of
this course: (i) Axiom, (ii) Term or word, (iii) Nature, (iv) Language, (v) Body
and (vi) Mind.

2 TASK 02

Study the vocabulary of English language kinship terms in Table 1 and their “equivalent”
in any indigenous African language such as Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa, Edo, Efic, Tiv, etc. of
your choice.

1. Obtain and tabulate the English and your translation of the words into those in your
language of choice.

2. Explain the logical content of the equivalent terms.

3. Form six (6) sentences with any six of the terms in Table 1 and translate the sen-
tences into those in your language of choice. [Each member of your group should
produce a sentence]

4. If you were required to develop a machine that translates from English to your lan-
guage of choice, what precautions will you take.

3 TASK 03

The software ELIZA chatbot was developed by Joseph Weizenbaum to demonstrate Hu-
man language processing technology in automated dialogue system for the English lan-
guage.

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 Table 1: Vocabulary of English kinship
1. Person 7. Mother 13. Daughter
2. Brother 8. Father 14. Niece
3. Sister 9. Inlaw 15. Parent
4. Wife 10. Grand parent 16. Child
5. Husband 11. Ancestor 17. Uncle
6. Son 12. Family 18. Nephew

1. Obtain and explore ELIZA.

2. Discuss the strength and weakness of ELIZA by conducting Six (6) set of dialogue
with the system around the kinship terminologies in Table 1. [Each member of
your group should produce a session of dialogue]

3. If you were required to develop an equivalent software to ELIZA in your language

of choice, what precautions will you take.