A Quick and Dirty Overview of NLP

Terence Patane-Ronan
Nov 6 · 3 min read

NLP, or Natural Language Processing, has changed the way we interact with computers. Technologies such as autocorrect and spellcheck, email spam filtering, and searching. NLP is a huge subject, so this article will only serve as a very brief, high-level introduction to the topic. In the early days of web indexing, search engines would pick out specific keywords and return the matches. For example, if a user were to search ‘dogs 4…

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