Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on the

interaction between computers and humans through natural language. Its goal is to enable
computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language in a way that is both meaningful
and useful.

NLP encompasses a wide range of tasks and applications, including:

Text Classification: Categorizing text documents into predefined categories or labels (e.g., spam
detection, sentiment analysis).

Named Entity Recognition (NER): Identifying and classifying entities mentioned in text, such as
names of people, organizations, locations, etc.

Sentiment Analysis: Determining the sentiment or emotional tone expressed in text (e.g., positive,
negative, neutral).

Machine Translation: Translating text from one language to another automatically (e.g., Google
Translate).

Question Answering: Building systems that can understand and answer questions posed in natural
language.

Text Generation: Generating human-like text, such as language models capable of writing coherent
articles or stories.

Summarization: Generating concise summaries of longer texts while preserving the key information.

NLP techniques often leverage machine learning and deep learning approaches, such as recurrent
neural networks (RNNs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and transformers. These techniques
require large amounts of annotated data for training and benefit from advances in computational
power and algorithms.

NLP is a rapidly evolving field with numerous practical applications across industries, including
healthcare, finance, customer service, and more.