Natural Language Processing (NLP) Overview

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What is the main purpose of NLP?

To make text more efficient to computer-assisted analysis

What is the most significant challenge of natural language processing?

The ever-evolving and ambiguous nature of human language

What approach to AI was used in the 1950s-1990s?

Rule-based artificial intelligence

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  • NLP is a field of study that uses computer algorithms to interpret human language.
  • NLP can be used to make text more accessible and efficient to computer-assisted analysis.
  • NLP is useful for personal assistants, such as Alexa, to understand spoken word, and for performing sentiment analysis.
  • NLP is also used for advanced analytics that were previously unreachable due to data volume.
  • There are a number of challenges of natural language processing, the most significant of which is the ever-evolving and ambiguous nature of human language.
  • The development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the 1950s-1990s involved the use of rules to interpret language.
  • This approach, known as rule-based artificial intelligence (RB AI), was largely based on the work of linguists.
  • In the late 1990s, a new approach to AI called natural language processing (NLP) was developed.
  • This approach uses automated interpretation of language to determine how computers should process it.
  • NLP has since been used to create computer programs that can understand human speech.

Explore the fundamentals of natural language processing (NLP) and its applications in computer-assisted analysis, personal assistants, sentiment analysis, and advanced analytics. Delve into the challenges of NLP and the transition from rule-based artificial intelligence to NLP in the late 1990s.

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