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What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

A simple introductory guide to know what, how, why, and where about NLP in AI

Written by Indrajit Singh & Yogesh Kothiya

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What is Natural Language Processing?

Analyzing and processing the Human Natural Language (Written & Spoken) to make the interaction between the computer & human or human & computer more seamless, meaningful, and interactive through a holistic study of computer science, linguistics, logic, and phycology are collectively called Natural language processing (NLP).

Evolution of Natural Language Processing

NLP has come a long way through many decades of struggle and improvements. Let’s have a quick go through the events that happened in the history of NLP.

• ‘Ferdinand de Saussure’ a swiss linguist and philosopher first led a foundation for linguistics and semiotics in the early 20th century. He argued that “meaning is created inside language, in the relations and differences between its parts”
• Later in 1950, Alan Turing showed us machines that could be part of a conversation through the use of a teleprinter.
• Noam Chomsky published…