Natural Language Processing: Enabling Machines to Understand Humans
Natural Language Processing: Enabling Machines to Understand Humans Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of artificial intelligence that helps computers read, listen, and understand human language. It blends linguistics with computer science to turn words into useful data. When done well, NLP lets devices answer questions, follow commands, and even read aloud in a natural voice. NLP works in simple steps. First, it breaks text into small pieces called tokens. Then it builds the grammatical structure and identifies the meaning. Finally, it uses that meaning to act, for example by answering a question or organizing information. Modern systems combine many tricks, from grammar rules to learning from large amounts of text, to improve accuracy over time. ...