Natural language processing

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of artificial intelligence focused on the interaction between computers and human language. It combines computational linguistics, machine learning, and deep learning to enable computers to process, understand, and generate human language in useful ways.

Key aspects of NLP include:

1. Text analysis and understanding: Breaking down and comprehending the structure, meaning, and context of text
2. Speech recognition: Converting spoken language into text
3. Machine translation: Translating text from one language to another
4. Sentiment analysis: Determining the emotional tone behind words
5. Text generation: Creating human-like text based on given inputs
6. Named entity recognition: Identifying and classifying key information in text
7. Question answering: Building systems that can answer questions posed in natural language

NLP has numerous applications across industries, from virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa to content recommendation systems, spam filters, customer service chatbots, and tools that analyze social media for brand sentiment. Recent advances in deep learning, particularly transformer models like BERT and GPT, have dramatically improved NLP capabilities, making applications more accurate and versatile.