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Anyone who wants to get into NLP, this blog can turn as a starting point. I’ll be posting 5 more blogs on NLP this will just be an introduction and there’ll be depth as we move forward. Even if you don’t know what’s the full form of NLP you can still read this and learn a lot about it.
Imagine if your pen could chat with you? Would’ve topped all the exams right? or your tablet could understand your bedtime stories how magical would that be? That’s exactly what NLP helps computers do: understand and use human languages like English, Hindi, or even Spanish, and yes it does understand Kannada ;)
Think of NLP as a magical power that lets computers understand what we say and write. It's a part of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which helps machines think more like humans.
Ever said “Hey Siri call Meghraj or Hey Siri send Shaahid a text !” to your smart phone? It hears you, understands what you want, and performs that task . That’s NLP doing its job behind the scenes!
Learning history of any tech topic is very important. It helps you understand how far humanity has come consistently leveraging it. Also it’s about the speed 2000s has seen. Like 10 years ago having a smartphone was a thing, five years ago smart watches were cool. Today we’re moving to smart rings. For NLP it has been the same case..
1950s: Computers were as big as whole rooms! But some smart folks, like Alan Turing, had a big idea: “Can a computer talk like a person?” He created the Turing Test, where if a computer could fool someone into thinking it was human, it passed!
1980s: A project called WordNet was created. It’s like a huge dictionary that connects words and their meanings like knowing that “kitten” is a baby “cat.”
1990s: Tools like Tree-Bank and Prop-Bank came along. These label sentences so that computers can understand grammar better. Another tool, Verb-Net, teaches computers how to understand actions like “run,” “jump,” or “eat.”
These tools are called linguistic resources they’re like treasure chests full of language secrets that help computers learn to understand us better.
