Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing: History and Achievements - Exxact

As we grow, we learn how to use language to communicate with people around us. First, we master our native language: listen to how family members and other children speak and repeat after them; memorize words as they relate to every object and phenomenon; learn sentence structure, punctuation, and other rules of written language. We may repeat a similar path when learning a foreign language. And this lifelong learning and practice come naturally to us, although not without some effort. Unlike humans, early computers were unable to understand speech or the written word and could only react to a specific set of commands.