What are the applications of NLP?

[vishrut-singhal]

Applications of NLP

There are the following applications of NLP -

1. Question Answering

Question Answering focuses on building systems that automatically answer the questions asked by humans in a natural language.

2. Spam Detection

Spam detection is used to detect unwanted e-mails getting to a user’s inbox.

3. Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment Analysis is also known as opinion mining . It is used on the web to analyse the attitude, behaviour, and emotional state of the sender. This application is implemented through a combination of NLP (Natural Language Processing) and statistics by assigning the values to the text (positive, negative, or natural), identify the mood of the context (happy, sad, angry, etc.)

4. Machine Translation

Machine translation is used to translate text or speech from one natural language to another natural language.

Example: Google Translator

5. Spelling correction

Microsoft Corporation provides word processor software like MS-word, PowerPoint for the spelling correction.

6. Speech Recognition

Speech recognition is used for converting spoken words into text. It is used in applications, such as mobile, home automation, video recovery, dictating to Microsoft Word, voice biometrics, voice user interface, and so on.

7. Chatbot

Implementing the Chatbot is one of the important applications of NLP. It is used by many companies to provide the customer’s chat services.

8. Information extraction

Information extraction is one of the most important applications of NLP. It is used for extracting structured information from unstructured or semi-structured machine-readable documents.

9. Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

It converts a large set of text into more formal representations such as first-order logic structures that are easier for the computer programs to manipulate notations of the natural language processing.