What Is Natural Language Processing?
As a field, natural language processing (or NLP) features many of the hardest problems that exist in computer science. A problem like machine translation, for example, involves almost every aspect of artificial intelligence: not just understanding the language syntactically, but also discerning the sentiment behind it, knowing of and deciding between the multiple and contradictory meanings that words and phrases might have, understanding all of the objects and people and places that might be referred to, and using the context of surrounding words to make judgments about potential ambiguities. These are not, for now at least, areas in which computers’ greatest strengths lie.
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