Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on the interaction between computers and humans through natural language. 🤖💬

What is NLP?

  • Definition: Enables machines to understand, interpret, and generate human language.
  • Key Tasks: Text classification, sentiment analysis, machine translation, and chatbots.
  • Applications:
    • Virtual assistants (e.g., Siri, Alexa)
    • Language translation tools
    • Text summarization systems
    • Speech recognition software

Core Concepts

  1. Tokenization

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    Splitting text into words, phrases, or symbols for analysis.

  2. Syntax Analysis
    Parsing sentences to understand grammatical structure.

  3. Semantic Analysis
    Extracting meaning from text through context and word relationships.

  4. Stemming & Lemmatization
    Reducing words to their root form (e.g., "running" → "run").

Challenges in NLP

  • Ambiguity in language (e.g., homonyms, polysemous words)
  • Cultural and contextual nuances
  • Handling sarcasm and idioms
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Get Started with NLP

  1. Explore Basic NLP Techniques
  2. Practice with Python Libraries
  3. Join the NLP Community

💡 Pro Tip: Start with simple tasks like text tokenization before moving to complex models like transformer architectures.