Natural Language Processing : Use Cases
Two dialogue blurbs containing characters I first stumbled on this fancy term in Year 3 of my degree at UWI, and since then, I have been intrigued by the capabilities of Natural Language Processing, affectionately called NLP in the data community. Now, you might be wondering, "What in the world is a Natural Language anyway?" A quick Google search will provide the following definition as the first result: "a language that has developed naturally in use (as contrasted with an artificial language or computer code)." Essentially, natural languages are what humans speak, such as German and Arabic. But guess what? Computers don't understand words and numbers like we do. Their whole world is built on a language of zeros and ones called binary. However, they can understand computer languages such as Python and Java, which can then be translated into machine code. The next question you may ask is, "How can a computer that speaks in zeros and ones process thousan...