Data Science interview questions covering Machine Learning , Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and more.
To restate the question: Given a sentence “I am about to complete this ”, can regression be used to predict the next word in this sentence? No It cannot be modeled with a regression task. There are multiple reasons : Any form of temporal data(text) will have a dependency or correlation between consecutive and even non-consecutive…
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One possible interpretation of the latent variables in the HMM model is that they are POS tags. We will go with this interpretation for simplicity, though the latent states could mean other things as well. To generate text using an HMM, we need to know the transition matrix (the probability of going from one tag…
An n-grams model makes order n-1 Markov assumption. This assumption implies: given the previous n-1 words, probability of word is independent of words prior to words. Suppose we have k words in a sentence, their joint probability can be expressed as follows using chain rule: Now, the Markov assumption can be used to make…
Language models can be built using the following popular methods – Using n-gram language model n-gram language models make assumption for the value of n. Larger the value of n, longer the dependency. One can refer to what is the significance of n-grams in a language model for further reading. Using hidden Markov Model(HMM) HMM maintains long…
n-grams is a term used for a sequence of n consecutive words/tokens/grams. In general, n-grams can either preserve the ordering or indicate what level of dependency is required in order to simplify the modeling task. While using bag of Words, n-grams come handy to preserve ordering between words but for language modeling, they signify the…
Recall the Bi-gram model can be expressed as : Following scenarios can lead to zero probability in the above expression : Out of vocabulary(OOV) words – such words may not be present during training and hence any probability term involving OOV words will be 0.0 leading entire term to be zero. This is solved…
Smoothing is applied because of the following reason: There might be some n-grams in the test set but may not be present in the training set. For ex., If the training corpus is and you need to find the probability of a sequence like where <START> is the token applied…
While building language model, we try to estimate the probability of the sentence or a document. Given sequences(sentences or documents) like Language model(bigram language model) will be : for each sequence given by above equation. Once we apply Maximum Likelihood Estimation(MLE), we should have a value for the term . Perplexity…
A language model is a probability distribution over sequences of words given by It enables us to measure the relative likelihood of different phrases. Measuring the likelihood of a sequence of words is useful in many NLP tasks such as speech recognition, machine translation, POS tagging, parsing, and so on. Example : In…
Auto Suggestion feature involves recommending the next word in a sentence or a phrase. For this, we need to build a language model on large enough corpus of “relevant” data. There are 2 caveats here – large corpus because we need to cover almost every case. This is important for recall. relevant data is useful…