What is Natural Language Processing?

Training a model can be a humbling experience. I encountered some fundamental questions that sparked a deeper dive for NLP understanding. I am taking a detours for the deeper understanding and sharing with my readers.

What is NLP

From tutorial : "NLP is a field of linguistics and machine learning focused on understanding everything related to human language. The aim of NLP tasks is not only to understand single words individually, but to be able to understand the context of those words."

What NLP can do for us

• Text summarization

• Sentiment analysis

• Text generation

• Providing the answer for the question

• Translation

To perform above task machine learning model have to process the language in a way that enable machine to perform the task.

Ready for an NLP challenge? See if you can find tasks in your environment where computers process human language. In next article, I would be sharing key NLP tasks. Drop me your thoughts will love to hear from you.