Why use NLP?
NLP is used in a wide variety of disciplines to solve many different types of problems. Text analysis is performed on text that ranges from a few words of user input for an Internet query to multiple documents that need to be summarized. We have seen a large growth in the amount and availability of unstructured data in recent years. This has taken forms such as blogs, tweets, and various other social media. NLP is ideal for analyzing this type of information.
Machine learning and text analysis are used frequently to enhance an application's utility. A brief list of application areas follow:
- Searching: This identifies specific elements of text. It can be as simple as finding the occurrence of a name in a document or might involve the ...
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