nlp
NLP stands for Natural Language Processing, which is a part of Computer Science, Human
language, and Artificial Intelligence. It is the technology that is used by machines to understand,
analyse, manipulate, and interpret human's languages. It helps developers to organize knowledge for
performing tasks such as translation, automatic summarization, Named Entity Recognition (NER),
speech recognition, relationship extraction, and topic segmentation
Advantages of NLP
o NLP helps users to ask questions about any subject and get a direct response within seconds.
o NLP offers exact answers to the question means it does not offer unnecessary and unwanted
information.
o NLP helps computers to communicate with humans in their languages.
o It is very time efficient.
o Most of the companies use NLP to improve the efficiency of documentation processes, accuracy
of documentation, and identify the information from large databases
There are the following two components of NLP -
1. Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) helps the machine to understand and analyse human language by
extracting the metadata from content such as concepts, entities, keywords, emotion, relations, and
semantic roles.
NLU mainly used in Business applications to understand the customer's problem in both spoken and
written language.
NLU involves the following tasks -
o It is used to map the given input into useful representation.
o It is used to analyze different aspects of the language.
2. Natural Language Generation (NLG)
Natural Language Generation (NLG) acts as a translator that converts the computerized data into natural
language representation. It mainly involves Text planning, Sentence planning, and Text Realization.
Applications of NLP
. Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment Analysis is also known as opinion mining. It is used on the web to analyse the attitude,
behaviour, and emotional state of the sender. This application is implemented through a combination of
NLP (Natural Language Processing) and statistics by assigning the values to the text (positive, negative, or
natural), identify the mood of the context (happy, sad, angry, etc.)
4. Machine Translation
Machine translation is used to translate text or speech from one natural language to another natural
language.
5. Spelling correction
Microsoft Corporation provides word processor software like MS-word, PowerPoint for the spelling
correction.
6. Speech Recognition
Speech recognition is used for converting spoken words into text. It is used in applications, such as mobile,
home automation, video recovery, dictating to Microsoft Word, voice biometrics, voice user interface,
and so on.
7. Chatbot
Implementing the Chatbot is one of the important applications of NLP. It is used by many companies to
provide the customer's chat services.
. Information extraction
Information extraction is one of the most important applications of NLP. It is used for extracting structured
information from unstructured or semi-structured machine-readable documents.
9. Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
It converts a large set of text into more formal representations such as first-order logic structures that are
easier for the computer programs to manipulate notations of the natural language processing.
