Natural Language Processing

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The study of how computers can understand and generate human language. Natural Language Processing can be used to create more natural interactions in virtual environments.

Syntax: Understanding the structure of language and the relationships between words in a sentence.
Morphology: Studying the formation of words and their internal structure to better understand how they relate to one another.
Phonetics and phonology: Analyzing the sounds of spoken language and how they combine to form words, phrases, and sentences.
Semantics: Examining the meanings and relationships of words and phrases within a sentence and the wider context of linguistic communication.
Pragmatics: Understanding how context and external factors (such as cultural norms and social cues) affect the interpretation of language.
Cognitive linguistics: Investigating how humans process and acquire language, including the role of mental models, schemas, and prototypes.
Machine learning: Developing algorithms that can learn from data and make predictions or decisions based on patterns observed in that data.
Natural language generation: Creating software that can automatically produce human-like language in response to input from users or other sources.
Sentiment analysis: Identifying and categorizing emotions and opinions expressed in written or spoken language.
Text classification: Automatically categorizing large-scale textual data into meaningful categories based on its contents.
Named entity recognition: Identifying specific people, places, organizations, and other entities mentioned in text.
Information extraction: Automatically identifying and extracting relevant information from unstructured text data, such as news articles or social media posts.
Speech recognition: Converting spoken language into text or other digital output, making it easier to analyze and manipulate.
Language modeling: Developing statistical models that capture the complex patterns and relationships within natural language.
Deep Learning: Creating neural networks which can aid in language processing, topic modeling, and other aspects of natural language processing.
Sentiment Analysis: This type of NLP deals with extracting the subjective information from text data, such as the emotion, opinion, and mood of the writer.
Named Entity Recognition (NER): It is concerned with identifying and classifying named entities such as people, organizations, locations, and dates mentioned in the text.
Part-of-speech Tagging (POS): It identifies and labels every word in a sentence or text with its part of speech such as Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb or Pronoun.
Text summarization: It extracts the most important information from a lengthy or complex text document and presents it in a concise form.
Machine Translation: It is concerned with translating one language into another, either with the help of rule-based, statistical or deep learning based models.
Topic Modeling: It is a technique for extracting the underlying themes or patterns in a large corpus of text, by grouping them into clusters of related topics.
Question Answering (QA): It involves building systems to answer questions (usually in a natural language format) posed by humans or machines by extracting relevant information from sources of text.
Text Classification: It assigns labels or categories to text documents based on the content, such as identifying spam vs. non-spam messages or positive vs. negative sentiment.
Emotion Detection: It identifies the emotions expressed in text data by analyzing tone, word choice, sentence structure and other related factors.
Quote: "Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and linguistics."
Quote: "It is primarily concerned with giving computers the ability to support and manipulate speech."
Quote: "It involves processing natural language datasets, such as text corpora or speech corpora."
Quote: "It involves processing natural language datasets, such as text corpora or speech corpora, using either rule-based or probabilistic machine learning approaches."
Quote: "The goal is a computer capable of 'understanding' the contents of documents, including the contextual nuances of the language within them."
Quote: "The technology can then accurately extract information and insights contained in the documents as well as categorize and organize the documents themselves."
Quote: "Challenges in natural language processing frequently involve speech recognition, natural-language understanding, and natural-language generation."
Quote: "Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and linguistics."
Quote: "Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and linguistics."
Quote: "It is primarily concerned with giving computers the ability to support and manipulate speech."
Quote: "It involves processing natural language datasets, such as text corpora or speech corpora, using either rule-based or probabilistic machine learning approaches."
Quote: "The technology can then accurately extract information and insights contained in the documents."
Quote: "The goal is a computer capable of 'understanding' the contents of documents, including the contextual nuances of the language within them."
Quote: "The technology can then accurately extract information and insights contained in the documents as well as categorize and organize the documents themselves."
Quote: "It involves processing natural language datasets, such as text corpora or speech corpora, using either rule-based or probabilistic machine learning approaches."
Quote: "It involves processing natural language datasets, such as text corpora or speech corpora, using either rule-based or probabilistic machine learning approaches."
Quote: "Challenges in natural language processing frequently involve speech recognition, natural-language understanding, and natural-language generation."
Quote: "Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and linguistics."
Quote: "It involves processing natural language datasets, such as text corpora or speech corpora."
Quote: "The technology can then accurately extract information and insights contained in the documents."