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Which of the following includes major tasks of NLP?
a) Automatic Summarization
b) Discourse Analysis
c) Machine Translation  
d) All of these

d

Explanation: There is even bigger list of tasks of NLP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing#Major_tasks_in_NLP.


What is Coreference Resolution?
a) Anaphora Resolution
b) Given a sentence or larger chunk of text, determine which words (“mentions”) refer to the same objects (“entities”)
c) All of these                      
d) None of these

b

Explanation: Anaphora resolution is a specific type of coreference resolution.


What is Machine Translation?
a) Converts one human language to another
b) Converts human language to machine language
c) Converts any human language to English
d) Converts Machine language to human language

a

Explanation: The best known example of machine translation is Google translator.


The more general task of coreference resolution also includes identifying so-called “bridging relationships” involving referring expressions.
a) True                                 
b) False

a

Explanation: Refer the definition of Coreference Resolution.


What is Morphological Segmentation?
a) Does Discourse Analysis
b) Separate words into individual morphemes and identify the class of the morphemes
c) Is an extension of propositional logic
d) None of the mentioned

b

Given a stream of text, Named Entity Recognition determines which pronoun maps to which noun.
a) False                                
b) True

a

Explanation: Given a stream of text, Named Entity Recognition determines which items in the text maps to proper names.