Teaching computers to make sense of human language has long been a goal of computer scientists. The natural language that people use when speaking to each other is complex and deeply dependent upon ...

It wasn’t too long ago that talking to a computer and having it not only understand, but speak back, was confined to the realm of science fiction, like that of the shipboard computers of Star Trek.

Being able to determine the meaning in a human language statement or query. When used in conjunction with voice recognition, people can speak their questions instead of typing them. Natural language ...

Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important frontiers in software. The basic idea—how to consume and generate human language effectively—has been an ongoing effort since the dawn of ...

Natural language processing libraries, including NLTK, spaCy, Stanford CoreNLP, Gensim and TensorFlow, provide pre-built tools for processing and analyzing human language. Natural language processing ...

One of my biggest complaints about terminology in the industry is the claim that data from conversations is “unstructured data”. That is nonsense. After all, how do people communicate, either in voice ...