Natural Language Processing
Vineet Raina, Srinath Krishnamurthy
Abstract
AI, as discussed in Chapter 1, refers to computers behaving intelligently like humans. One aspect of human intelligence is the capability of understanding and speaking languages. The subfield of AI that focuses on making computers seemingly intelligent in understanding and generating languages just like humans is called natural language processing. We will henceforth refer to this subfield by the popular acronym NLP. Teaching computers how to understand and speak natural languages offers a plethora of benefits. Humans can do mathematical calculations, but when computers learn to do them, they can perform much more complex calculations much faster than humans would. Similarly, when computers learn human languages, they can process much more language data which opens up myriad possibilities.