Your Brief Guide to Natural Language Processing (Part 1)

In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) has become a part of our everyday lives. Smartphones now come equipped with NLP-powered voice assistants that interpret and understand human speech in order to provide relevant responses to user queries. NLP also helps translation apps break down communication barriers by analyzing input in one language and transforming it into another language. Even word processors rely on NLP to check the grammar, logic, and syntax of written input. And NLP is now an integral part of customer service; it's used to guide people to the right representative through verbal commands. Yet, few people actually understand how NLP plays a role in making them possible.