Artificial Intelligence
What is Natural language processing?
Natural language processing (NLP) is the field of AI focused on letting computers understand, interpret, and generate human language. It powers translation, chatbots, voice assistants, and search.
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Key things to understand
- 1It bridges human language and computer understanding.
- 2Tasks include translation, sentiment analysis, summarization, and question answering.
- 3Modern NLP is driven by large language models trained on huge text corpora.
- 4It must handle ambiguity, context, and the messiness of real language.
Frequently asked questions
- What is NLP used for?
- Translation, chatbots, voice assistants, search, spam filtering, sentiment analysis, and summarization.
- Is NLP the same as a large language model?
- LLMs are the current leading technology for NLP, but NLP is the broader field that predates them.
- Why is human language hard for computers?
- It's full of ambiguity, context, idioms, and exceptions that don't follow strict rules.