Unit 8 - Understanding Natural Language Processing

For this task, I created constituency-based parse trees for three English sentences. These trees illustrate the hierarchical phrase structure of natural language using standard syntactic categories (e.g. NP = noun phrase, VP = verb phrase, PP = prepositional phrase). This exercise demonstrates how language can be structurally analysed for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, which are essential in intelligent systems.

1. The government raised interest rates.

(S
  (NP (DT The) (NN government))
  (VP (VBD raised)
    (NP (NN interest) (NNS rates))))

2. The internet gives everyone a voice.

(S
  (NP (DT The) (NN internet))
  (VP (VBZ gives)
    (NP (NN everyone))
    (NP (DT a) (NN voice))))

3. The man saw the dog with the telescope.

(S
  (NP (DT The) (NN man))
  (VP (VBD saw)
    (NP
      (NP (DT the) (NN dog))
      (PP (IN with)
          (NP (DT the) (NN telescope))))))