Identifying Stop Words
In the sentence 'She is reading a book', which word is typically considered a stop word in natural language processing?
- She
- book
- reading
- is
- read
Purpose of Stop Words
What is the primary reason for removing stop words in text analysis?
- To increase data size
- To reduce noise and focus on important words
- To create typos
- To make sentences longer
- To add punctuation
Understanding Stemming
Which of the following is the stem for the word 'running' when using stemming techniques?
- run
- runned
- ran
- runner
- runing
Lemmatization Example
After lemmatization, what is the base form of the word 'better'?
- best
- bettered
- better
- good
- bettr
Difference between Lemmatization and Stemming
Which statement best describes the main difference between lemmatization and stemming?
- Stemming always produces real words, lemmatization does not.
- Lemmatization finds the dictionary form of a word, while stemming cuts off prefixes or suffixes.
- They are exactly the same process.
- Stemming changes word meaning; lemmatization does not.
- Lemmatization creates typos, stemming does not.
Stop Words List Example
Which word is LEAST likely to appear on a typical list of stop words?
- the
- and
- information
- is
- a
Effect on Sentence Meaning
How does removing stop words usually affect sentence meaning in data processing?
- It often changes the meaning completely.
- It typically preserves essential meaning while making text shorter.
- It adds extra meaning to sentences.
- It creates new words.
- It always makes text unreadable.
Stemming Error Example
If stemming is applied to the word 'flies', which incorrect stem might be produced by a naive stemmer?
- fli
- fly
- fliesed
- flie
- flying
Lemmatization Result Example
What is the lemmatized form of 'children'?
- childs
- child
- childrening
- chilren
- childer
Appropriate Application
When analyzing the overall theme of a news article, which technique is most helpful for making keywords uniform?
- Adding stop words
- Stemming or lemmatization
- Inserting new verbs
- Deleting all words ending in 'ing'
- Counting sentence length