Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Machine Learning (ML) is a field that focuses on the

interaction between computers and humans through natural language. The ultimate goal of NLP
is to enable computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language in a way that is
both meaningful and useful. NLP combines computational linguistics—rule-based modeling of
human language—with statistical, machine learning, and deep learning models. Some common
applications of NLP include:

1. **Text Classification**: Assigning categories to text (e.g., spam detection, sentiment analysis).
2. **Machine Translation**: Translating text from one language to another (e.g., Google
Translate).
3. **Named Entity Recognition (NER)**: Identifying entities like names, dates, and organizations
within a text.
4. **Speech Recognition**: Converting spoken language into text (e.g., virtual assistants like Siri
and Alexa).
5. **Chatbots and Virtual Assistants**: Understanding and generating human-like responses to
text inputs.

NLP tasks are typically divided into two broad categories: understanding and generation.
Understanding involves extracting meaningful information from text, while generation involves
producing text that is understandable and contextually appropriate.