Question

What is the purpose of stemming in natural language processing?

a) To identify and categorize named entities in a text

b) To determine the overall sentiment of a text

c) To reduce words to their root form

d) To translate a text from one language to another

Answer 1

Solution : c) To reduce words to their root form.

Reason: Stemming is a technique used in NLP to reduce words to their root form, such as converting “running” to “run” or “jumping” to “jump”.