NLP is a critical technology that bridges the gap between human language and computer understanding, enabling a wide range of applications.
 

• Definition: NLP is a branch of artificial intelligence that enables computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language.

• Techniques: It combines computational linguistics, which is rule-based modeling of human language, with statistical, machine learning, and neural network models.

• Applications: NLP is at the heart of various applications that can translate text, respond to spoken commands, summarize text, and even generate content on demand.

• Tasks: NLP tasks include speech recognition, part of speech tagging, and word sense disambiguation, among others. These tasks help computers make sense of human language with all its nuances, including idioms, sarcasm, and varying sentence structures.