Natural Language Processing for Absolute Beginners

Before diving into the definition of natural language processing it is extremely important to explore why it came into existence. Our personal computers communicate in a language known as machine language. Unlike human natural language, a machine language uses a series of zeroes and ones often called bits to communicate to the outer world and is vaguely puzzling for humans. To bridge this gap it was necessary for machines to act and talk like humans and hence NLP was invented to proffer intelligent human to machine interaction. Natural language processing is a subset of Artificial Intelligence, Computer science and Human linguistic processing providing the ability for computers/ machines to understand, process and acquire significant insights from human natural languages.