Professor Oflazer: Natural Language Processing

1. Name 3 applications on Natural Language Processing

Three applications of Natural Language Processing that I have identified through research would have to be speech recognition, text classification, and sentiment analysis.

2. Select three words in your language and for each word try to separate into its internal component. (e.g for English If I chose unbelievable I would break it as un-believ(e)-able)

a) قمر (moon): ق - مر

b) نجمة (star): نج - مة

c) كوكب (planet): كو - كب

3. Select three sentences in your native language (but please write it in the closest latin transcription). Your sentences should be around 10 words. Translate these sentences to English) --- Indicate which words or small groups of words translate to which words or groups of words in Eglish translation.

a) Ismi Saif wa ahibu an aakul al shocolata maa bootha binakha alvanillia.

My name is Saif and I love to eat chocolate with vanilla flavored ice cream

b) Aladeedo min alashkhas yookhtioon baynee wa bayn akhi lianana towam.

Alot of people confuse my brother and I because we are twins.

c) Fee owgat faraghi, ahibu alsabaha, wa rookoob aldarajat alhawaeeya, wa rookoob alkhaylee.

In my spare time, I like to swim, cycle, and go horse riding

4. How many interpretations are there for the following English sentence "Time flies like an arrow"? Write each interpretation descriptively.

There are several interpretations for the English sentence “Time flies like an arrows”:

a) Time flies like an arrow in terms of speed, that time moves quickly.

b)Time flies like an arrow in terms of direction, linearly.

c) Time flies (the insect) like arrows (same fashion as the saying “Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies a banana”).