An article by M. Tim Jones about how natural language processing can help you to converse more naturally with computers.
In 1954, IBM demonstrated the ability to translate Russian sentences into English using machine translation on an IBM 701 mainframe.
Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important subfields of machine learning for a variety of reasons. Natural language is the most natural interface between a user and a machine.
The article then describes:
- History of NLP
- Early work in NLP
- Modern approaches
- Word encodings
- Recurrent neural networks
- Reinforcement learning
The importance of NLP is demonstrated by the ever-growing list of applications that use it. NLP provides the most natural interface to computers and to the wealth of unstructured data available online . Interesting read!
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