Journey through NLP Research -- Basics – deepu kr – Medium

SHRDLU is the first computer program which accepts natural language as input for moving toy blocks in a virtual world. It accepts commands like "put red pyramid on top of green square" and translate to physical actions inside the virtual world. NLP (Natural Language processing) is the techniques used for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) which plays a major role in Artificial Intelligence (AI). NLP helps the AI systems to process the data for knowledge representation,reasoning and Machine Learning.The objective of NLP is to make the machines as intelligent as human beings in understanding language. NLP fills the gap between human communication(natural langauge) and what the computer understands(machine learning).NLP helps in mapping the given input in natural language to useful representations The availability of large computational resources and data helped in the statistical revolution in computer applications like speech recognition, probabilistic models, data science, machine learning etc. Different Statistical methods are used in NLP applications like From the above mentioned linguistic properties phonetics and lexicons are mostly used for speech to text conversion systems.