Communication is key- whether between us humans or between us and our best friends among the machines. There has been no point in history when technology was as inclusive as it is today. And that is because technology today is interactive- we can talk to it like we talk to each other.
And how did we get there- from the computers that use trillions of zeros and ones to say anything to talking to your digital personal assistants that can understand any dialect and sound? Well, it is through natural language processing.
Natural language processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers understand, interpret and manipulate human language.
NLP is not just about speaking and listening but it is also about processing emotions underlying those words and customizing responses accordingly. Basically, NLP is about boosting the social and emotional intelligence of the machine. For this a machine will communicate with humans in their own language and scale other language-related tasks.
More importantly, NLP can help in reading large amounts of textual data and interpreting it to make sense. NLP can help process unstructured text like that found in hospital records, social media handles, legal case files etc. It can not just read it but also process it and make useful conclusions from gigantic piles of data.
Data is in a staggeringly varied range and format in today’s world and so the capabilities of natural language processing are also varied. Natural language processing thus includes many different techniques for interpreting human language, ranging from statistical and machine learning methods to rules-based and algorithmic approaches.
Higher-level NLP uses techniques such as content categorization, topic discovery and modeling, contextual extraction, sentimental analysis, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech conversion, document summarization and machine translation. In more general terms, NLP breaks down the language into elemental pieces and tries to understand the relationship between them and find out how these work together to create meaning.
Codelattice has been offering NLP capabilities in multiple applications and was recently named among the top NLP companies in India by Startup Pill. The company found itself in the listing with its exceptional and innovative growth strategies, product, marketing, and most importantly the value of its ideas.
