Natural language processing (NLP) covers techniques that let software work with human language. Tasks include translation, sentiment analysis, named-entity recognition, summarization, question answering, and speech recognition.
Why it matters
NLP turns unstructured text, which is most of the world's data, into something searchable and measurable. It drives search relevance, support ticket routing, spam detection, and today's large language models. Language is ambiguous, so results should be tested on text that resembles your real inputs.
Example
Sentiment analysis labels a review:
"Checkout kept timing out, very frustrating"
-> {"sentiment": "negative", "score": 0.93}
Named-entity recognition would pull out items like company names, dates, or locations from the same kind of text.
Common mistakes
- Expecting English-trained models to work equally well in other languages or dialects.
- Overlooking sarcasm, slang, and domain jargon that confuse sentiment models.
- Skipping text data cleaning, such as removing boilerplate or duplicates.
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