Going Down the Natural Language Processing Pipeline

Communication plays a big part in our everyday lives. We talk to different people in different languages, but what about communicating with technology? Nowadays, everyone has some sort of device, and we often use it to find answers to our questions. Such as asking Siri, "where can I find the nearest sushi place?" we are verbally asking a question/making a statement. But here's the thing, computers don't just speak English; they are written in complex code with totally different syntax than we speak.