Introduction to Natural Language Processing

摘要

With recent advances in technology, communication is one of the domains that has seen revolutionary developments. Communication and information have formed the backbone of modern society and it is language and communication that has led to such advances in human knowledge in all spheres. Humans have been fascinated by the idea of machines or robots having human-like abilities to converse in our language. Numerous science fiction books and media have dealt with this topic. The Turing test was designed for this purpose, to test whether a human being is able to decipher if the entity on the other end of a communication channel is a human being or a machine.