Natural language processing (NLP)

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that enables machines to understand, interpret, and generate human language. It combines computational linguistics with machine learning to process text and speech data, allowing applications such as chatbots, sentiment analysis, language translation, and voice assistants. NLP involves tasks like tokenization, parsing, named entity recognition, and language modeling. It plays a critical role in making human-computer interactions more intuitive and enabling intelligent automation of language-based processes.