Chapter 1. Introduction to Natural Language Processing

I will start with the introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP). Language is a central part of our day to day life, and it's so interesting to work on any problem related to languages. I hope this book will give you a flavor of NLP, will motivate you to learn some amazing concepts of NLP, and will inspire you to work on some of the challenging NLP applications.

In my own language, the study of language processing is called NLP. People who are deeply involved in the study of language are linguists, while the term 'computational linguist' applies to the study of processing languages with the application of computation. Essentially, a computational linguist will be a computer scientist ...

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