UTTARANCHAL UNIVERSITY

(Established vide Uttaranchal University Act, 2012, Uttarakhand Act No. 11 of 2013)
Premnagar-248007, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, INDIA

Uttaranchal Institute of Technology, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Instructions:
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Assignment – 1

Class: B. Tech (7th Sem)

Subject: NLP (TCS-712)

Last date of Submission: 13/10/2023

Sr. No. Question CO

1. What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)? Explain CO – 1

its significance and applications.
2. Explain the purpose and significance of NLTK CO – 1
(Natural Language Toolkit) in NLP research and
development.
3. Define a corpus in the context of NLP. What is the CO – 1
importance of having a balanced corpus in linguistic
research?
4. What is a TreeBank, and how does it contribute to CO – 1
linguistic research and NLP tasks?
5. Describe the significance and use of PropBank in CO – 1
natural language processing.
6. What is WordNet, and how does it help in semantic CO – 1
analysis and NLP applications?
7. What is ambiguity in natural language processing? CO – 1
Provide examples of different types of ambiguities.