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Natural Language Processing: Understanding Text with AI

Learn NLP fundamentals - how AI understands and processes human language. From text classification to sentiment analysis, master the techniques behind chatbots and language models.

Dr. Sarah Chen

December 18, 2025

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NLP is how computers understand human language. It's behind chatbots, translation apps, sentiment analysis, and modern language models. Understanding NLP opens up countless possibilities.

What is NLP?

Natural Language Processing is the field of AI that focuses on the interaction between computers and human language. It involves teaching machines to read, understand, and generate human language in a valuable way.

Common NLP Tasks

Text classification (spam detection, sentiment analysis), named entity recognition (finding names, places), machine translation, question answering, and text generation. Each task uses different techniques.

Modern Approaches

Traditional NLP used rule-based systems and statistical methods. Modern NLP uses deep learning, especially transformers and language models. These approaches understand context and meaning much better.

Practical Applications

I'll show you how to build practical NLP applications - sentiment analysis, text classification, and basic chatbots. These are skills you can use in real projects right away.

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Common Questions & Answers

What is Natural Language Processing?

NLP is a branch of AI that helps computers understand, interpret, and generate human language. It involves tasks like text classification, sentiment analysis, machine translation, named entity recognition, and language generation. Modern NLP uses deep learning models like transformers.

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Run Explain

import nltk
from transformers import pipeline

# Sentiment analysis
classifier = pipeline("sentiment-analysis")
result = classifier("I love this product!")
print(result)  # [{'label': 'POSITIVE', 'score': 0.99}]

# Text classification
classifier = pipeline("zero-shot-classification")
result = classifier(
    "This is a great movie",
    candidate_labels=["positive", "negative", "neutral"]
)
print(result)

How do transformers work in NLP?

Transformers use attention mechanisms to understand relationships between words in a sentence. They process all words simultaneously (unlike RNNs) and learn which words are important for understanding each word. This makes them powerful for translation, summarization, and language understanding.