Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Definition
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of AI that gives computers the ability to read, understand, and derive meaning from human language. It combines computational linguistics with machine learning and deep learning models.
Why It Matters
NLP is what allows us to communicate with computers in our own language. It powers everything from search engines and chatbots to language translation and sentiment analysis.
Contextual Example
When you ask a virtual assistant like Siri a question, NLP is used to parse your sentence, understand its intent, find the relevant information, and generate a natural language response.
Common Misunderstandings
- NLP involves many sub-tasks, including tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis.
- Large Language Models (LLMs) are a recent breakthrough in NLP.