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NLP Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Answers

Master Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Practice MCQs. Explore our curated collection of Multiple Choice Questions. Ideal for placement and interview preparation, our questions range from basic to advanced, ensuring comprehensive coverage of NLP. Begin your placement preparation journey now!

Q1

Q1 What is the primary objective of Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

A

To design database systems

B

To enable machines to understand, interpret, and generate human language

C

To enhance programming speed

D

To automate computations

Q2

Q2 NLP is a subfield of which broader field?

A

Computer Science

B

Artificial Intelligence

C

Data Science

D

Machine Learning

Q3

Q3 Which of these is not an application of NLP?

A

Sentiment Analysis

B

Text Summarization

C

Speech Recognition

D

Image Classification

Q4

Q4 What type of input does NLP primarily handle?

A

Images

B

Numbers

C

Text and Speech

D

Video

Q5

Q5 Which phase of NLP focuses on identifying the structure and meaning of sentences?

A

Syntax Analysis

B

Tokenization

C

Semantic Analysis

D

POS Tagging

Q6

Q6 What is the difference between syntax and semantics in NLP?

A

Syntax focuses on meaning while semantics focuses on structure

B

Syntax focuses on structure while semantics focuses on meaning

C

Both focus on structure

D

Both focus on meaning

Q7

Q7 What is the Bag-of-Words model used for in NLP?

A

Capturing context between words

B

Counting word frequencies without context

C

Detecting sentiment

D

Generating word embeddings

Q8

Q8 Which Python library provides tools for NLP tasks like tokenization and stemming?

A

matplotlib

B

scikit-learn

C

nltk

D

tensorflow

Q9

Q9 A model outputs unrelated words when translating text. What is the likely issue in the NLP pipeline?

A

Incorrect tokenization

B

Too much training data

C

Improper evaluation metrics

D

High learning rate

Q10

Q10 What is tokenization in NLP?

A

Breaking text into sentences

B

Breaking text into words

C

Removing stopwords

D

Converting text to lowercase

Q11

Q11 What is the purpose of removing stopwords in NLP?

A

To improve context

B

To reduce data noise

C

To enhance syntax analysis

D

To tokenize text

Q12

Q12 Which of the following is an example of a lemma for the word "running"?

A

run

B

running

C

runs

D

ran

Q13

Q13 Why is stemming less accurate than lemmatization?

A

It uses dictionary lookups

B

It considers context

C

It uses heuristic rules

D

It generates tokens

Q14

Q14 Which method in Python’s nltk library is used to tokenize a sentence into words?

A

word_tokenize

B

sent_tokenize

C

split

D

tokenize

Q15

Q15 How does lemmatization differ from stemming?

A

It’s faster

B

It’s more accurate

C

It generates shorter tokens

D

It removes stopwords

Q16

Q16 What are stopwords?

A

Rarely used words

B

Frequent and insignificant words

C

Nouns

D

Verbs

Q17

Q17 Which Python library provides a predefined list of stopwords?

A

nltk

B

spacy

C

pandas

D

numpy

Q18

Q18 Which method in nltk can be used to check if a word is a stopword?

A

stopwords.is_stop

B

stopwords.words

C

stopwords.check

D

stopwords.tokenize

Q19

Q19 A tokenization function splits words incorrectly due to punctuations. What should be modified?

A

The language model

B

The tokenization algorithm

C

The stopword list

D

The stemming logic

Q20

Q20 What is the main purpose of text preprocessing in NLP?

A

To reduce data noise

B

To create embeddings

C

To train models directly

D

To generate stopwords

Q21

Q21 Which preprocessing step involves converting all characters to lowercase?

A

Tokenization

B

Normalization

C

Stemming

D

POS tagging

Q22

Q22 Why is removing punctuation important in text preprocessing?

A

It improves tokenization

B

It simplifies embeddings

C

It enhances syntax analysis

D

It reduces data size

Q23

Q23 Which step replaces contractions like “don’t” with “do not”?

A

Tokenization

B

Expanding contractions

C

Stemming

D

Lemmatization

Q24

Q24 Which method can handle spelling corrections during preprocessing?

A

Bag-of-Words

B

Spell checkers

C

Stemming

D

Tokenization

Q25

Q25 What is the role of stemming in text preprocessing?

A

To retain context

B

To remove suffixes from words

C

To expand contractions

D

To identify stopwords

Q26

Q26 Which Python library provides the TextBlob class for text preprocessing?

A

nltk

B

TextBlob

C

spaCy

D

pandas

Q27

Q27 How do you remove punctuation from text using Python’s string library?

A

text.split()

B

text.translate()

C

text.strip()

D

text.replace()

Q28

Q28 How can you remove numbers from text using re in Python?

A

re.sub(r'\d+', '', text)

B

re.findall(r'\d+', text)

C

re.split(r'\d+', text)

D

re.match(r'\d+', text)

Q29

Q29 A preprocessing pipeline is failing because stopwords are not being removed. What should you check?

A

Stopword list

B

Stemming logic

C

POS tags

D

Normalization steps

Q30

Q30 A dataset contains text with special characters disrupting tokenization. What should you do?

A

Expand contractions

B

Remove special characters

C

Use a new tokenization method

D

Apply stemming

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