Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Natural Language simply means the language that we use on regular basis for communication. It can be any language like English, Hindi, Spanish, etc. But when it comes to computers, they can hardly understand our natural language. To make them understand our natural language, we make use of the technology known as "Natural Language Processing" . Though we are using technologies to make the machines understand our natural language it's still not an easy job. The study of "NLP" has been around for more than 50 years and it grew more with the rise of computers. NLP, in a wide sense, can be defined as computer/automatic manipulation of natural language by software and it can be anything like speech or text. In other words, it can be defined as the capability of a computer program to understand human language, and the development of such applications is quite challenging as natural language is highly ambiguous and is always changing and evolving due to its l...