Natural Language Processing: Machines That Understand Language
Natural Language Processing: Machines That Understand Language Natural language processing, or NLP, is a branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers work with human language. It covers reading text, listening to speech, and turning ideas into actions. The goal is to let machines understand meaning and intent behind words, not just spellings. Good NLP helps apps act like a helpful assistant, from a simple search to a talking friend. NLP models learn from large amounts of data. They look for patterns in how words appear together, how sentences are formed, and how ideas relate. During training, models guess the next word and adjust. They are powerful, but they do not truly think or feel. They predict what a human would more likely say next. Even small changes in data can raise accuracy, so teams carefully clean data, test on new languages, and measure how well the system handles odd sentences. ...