Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2009

Which of the following statements is NOT true about how the software processes emotional analysis?

• A. Words receive positive, negative or neutral labels
• B. Words with reversed sentiments are excluded.
• C. The words are always seen in context.
• D. The grammatical structure of each segment is analysed
• E. A list of nearly sixty thousand words is consulted.

"holiday hell" and "abuse helpline" (lines 36-37) are quoted in the text to illustrate cases in which the computers will

• A. readily identify the clear meaning of such phrases.
• B. easily deduce the writer's primary negative feelings.
• C. doubt people's capacity of expressing their feelings intelligently.
• D. have difficulty in understanding the writer's original emotional meaning.
• E. be able to immediately interpret the text's underlying sarcastic intentions.

Mark the alternative that contains an expression that is a correct replacement for the boldfaced item(s).

• A. "Yet getting them to assess intelligently what people mean from what they say…" (lines 3-5) – For that reason
• B. "(unless, that is, someone is talking about the healthy bacteria …)" (lines 13-14) – nevertheless
• C. "Words such as 'never', 'failed', and 'prevent' are tagged as 'changing' or 'reversive' words…" (lines 25-27) – Inasmuch as
• D. "...because they reverse the sentiment of the word they precede." (lines 27-28) – Since
• E. "Instead of simply adding up the number of positive and negative mentions for each concept," (lines 54-55) – While

The only fragment in which 'it' refers to "software" is

• A. "To computers, however, it is trickier." (lines 2-3)
• B. "it would be bad." (line 15)
• C. "It uses so-called 'sentiment analysis' software to assess text." (lines 19-20)
• D. "…assigns emotional labels to the words it contains," (lines 22-23).
• E. "At each stage, it computes the changing sentiment of the sentence." (lines 51-52)

In the example given in paragraphs 5 and 6 (lines 39-63), the author explains that the

• A. emotional meanings are attributed to words in isolation and not to the sentence structure.c
• B. emotional scores of each word may change according to the topic discussed in the text.
• C. length of segments and emotional tags of each word are considered in scoring emotional concepts.
• D. word 'recession' is not analyzed because it is hard to identify its emotional meaning.
• E. mere arithmetic sum of the scores indicated for each word will reveal the emotional content of the text analysed.

Check the alternative in which the expression is precisely explained, according to its meaning in the text.

• A. "...'killing' (...) 'bacteria'..." (line 12) – bacteria that can kill
• B. "...the emotional meaning of text..." (lines 16-17) – the meaning of a sentimental text
• C. "...complex syntactic rules..." (line 35) – difficult language regulations
• D. "...seemingly conflicting cases..." (line 36) – cases that are apparently doubtful
• E. "...('the region's largest economies...' " (line 60) – economies of highly populated regions

From the fragment "But the software can only supplement human judgement - because people don't always mean what they say." (lines 66-68), we may infer that the author

• A. does not believe the software can be totally trusted.
• B. complains that human judgement is never fair enough.
• C. pressuposes that computer sentiment analysis is fully reliable.
• D. rejects human analysis of feelings and supports technological sentiment analysis
• E. criticizes companies that intend to use the new software to analyse potentially dangerous clients.

Judge the following items about the ideas and the linguistic structures of the text above.

America, Australia and Canada, which are surrounded either by oceans or rough wilderness are the most active proponents of satellite navigation for commercial aircraft.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Judge the following items about the ideas and the linguistic structures of the text above.

The automatic dependent surveillance broadcast would not have prevented the crash into the Atlantic, notwithstanding its technology which combines the precise position of the aircraft with data about its flight number, speed, direction as well as attitude.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

Judge the following items about the ideas and the linguistic structures of the text above.

The word "ill-fated" (l.1) is synonymous with doomed.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado