Natural language processing (NLP) refers to the branch of
computer science -and more specifically, the branch of artificial
intelligence or AI- concerned with giving computers the ability to
understand text and spoken words in much the same way human
beings can.
NLP combines computational linguistics -rule-based modeling of
human language- with statistical, machine learning, and deep
learning models. Together, these technologies enable computers
to process human language in the form of text or voice data and
to “understand” its full meaning, complete with the speaker or
writer’s intent and sentiment.
Natural language processing is the driving force behind machine
intelligence in many modern real-world applications. Examples of
NLP include Spam detection, Machine translation, Virtual agents
and chatbots, Social media sentiment analysis, Text summarization.