Computers: understanding Human and Natural Language

Processing natural language in computers has an entire field of study dedicated to it. This field, called Natural Language Processing (NLP), works to explore the interaction between human language and computers. Essentially, this is a method for computers to begin to analyze and understand human language. Even more impressive is the ability for computers to begin to understand actual meanings from human language in ways that could be construed as not only helpful, but intelligent.

Form of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Developers using NLP can start to structure and organize knowledge for computers to perform a wide range of tasks. This includes translation, recognition of names, speed recognition, topic segmentation, analysis of the sentiment of the words, and relationship extraction. Instead of merely looking at individual letters as symbols, through the ability of processing natural language, computers are able to take words and even phrases and actually make sense from them. They can take phrases to make sentences, and then use those sentences to create and convey ideas.

Moreover, developers are using the technology, which is based on machine learning algorithms, for a range of things today. Some of the different tasks that can be accomplished already include the ability to summarize blocks of text, creating chat bots, generating keyword tags, identifying the type of entity that has been extracted from text, and more.