On Natural Language Processing

Robots being able to understand and react to language is a prerequisite for them to be able to interact with us. Therefore, it is a very active topic of research with newer, better and mostly bigger neural networks coming out on a very regular basis. It is extremely difficult to keep up with the state-of-the-art. Especially for people new to the topic, it can be very cumbersome to start off. Having recently gotten into Natural Language Processing (NLP), I want to give an overview of the basics of NLP for the interested reader.