Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused on empowering computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. Its main aim is to bridge the gap between human communication and computer comprehension by combining linguistics with machine learning and computer science.

NLP powers many everyday applications, including chatbots, voice assistants (such as Siri and Alexa), language translation tools (like Google Translate), sentiment analysis, and spam detection. Key tasks within NLP include speech recognition, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, and language generation. The ultimate goal of NLP is to allow machines to interact with humans in a natural and meaningful way using language.