NLP — Natural Language Processing

Fact

A field for making computers understand, process, and create human language.

In Plain Words

NLP is a computer in a family group chat. It learns “fine” can mean “fine” or “you are in trouble.”

You meet it in chatbots and translation apps. It also helps search boxes and support chats.

Related Concepts

• Language Modeling
• Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
• Large Language Model
• Information Retrieval

LM
Language modeling is one of the core methods in NLP.

BERT
BERT is one of the landmark models from the NLP era.

LLM
LLMs build on many years of NLP work.

IR
NLP often works with IR for search, Q&A, and knowledge services.