NLP 101: Towards Natural Language Processing

Under the umbrella of data science fields, natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most famous and important subfields. Natural language processing is a computer science field that gives computers the ability to understand human -- natural -- languages. Although the field has gained a lot of traction recently, it is -- in fact -- a field as old as computers themselves. However, the advancement of technology and computing power has led to incredible advancements in NLP. Now, speech technologies are becoming as famous as written text technologies.