Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of artificial intelligence focused on the interaction between computers and human language. NLP enables machines to understand, interpret, and generate texts and spoken words. By combining computational linguistics with statistical models and deep learning, NLP systems can capture the meaning of language and be useful in applications such as translations, chatbots, and sentiment analysis. It is one of the key technologies that allow AI to communicate in a way that is natural for humans.
The main tasks of NLP today involve a variety of complex challenges, such as machine translation, where texts are automatically transferred from one language to another. Another important task is information extraction, where relevant facts are derived from unstructured texts. Additionally, NLP plays a crucial role in sentiment analysis to identify emotions and opinions in social media or customer reviews. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), NLP has further evolved to generate coherent text and provide precise answers to complex questions in natural language.