Computational Linguistics

Q.1. A. What is computational linguistics? (01)

B. What are the differences between symbolic and stochastic approaches? (01)
Q.2. A. How is Apple’s Siri used as human-machine interface? (01)

B. Write short notes on the relation between CL and AI. (01)
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B. Rewrite the incorrect statements correctly. (01)

1. There's more focus on engineering aspect of a language processing system in CL while as in NLP
   there’s more focus on linguistic aspect of the system.
2. The goal of CL is to facilitate the development of human-machine-interfaces in order to make humanmachine communication possible in artificial languages like perl, python, java, etc.
3. The primary source of linguistic information in rule-based systems is annotated corpus while as the
   primary source of linguistic information in statistical systems is the hand crafted rules and lexicons.
4. Google Translation is a rule-based translation engine that uses statistical language modeling from the
   parallel corpus.

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