A brief introduction to NLP

NLP is an interdisciplinary field that combines computer science, ML, and linguistics. It gives computers the ability to understand, analyze, and respond to natural language texts, written or spoken. The field of NLP is evolving for many reasons, including the availability of big data and powerful computational resources such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Examples of state-of-the-art NLP models include BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding (https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805), ChatGPT (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt), and Google Bard (https://bard.google.com). Next, let’s explore some of the key applications of NLP models in practice.

Applications of NLP in practice

Some common applications of NLP models are shown in Figure 11.1.

Figure 11.1 – Samples of key applications of NLP models in practice

Let’s now discuss some...