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Natural-language (History (In 1950, Alan Turing published his famous…
Natural-language
History
In 1950, Alan Turing published his famous article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" which proposed what is now called the Turing test as a criterion of intelligence.
In 1957, Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures revolutionized Linguistics with 'universal grammar', a rule based system of syntactic structures.
In 1969 Roger Schank introduced the conceptual dependency theory for natural language understanding.
In 1970, William A. Woods introduced the augmented transition network (ATN) to represent natural language input.
Up to the 1980s, most NLP systems were based on complex sets of hand-written rules.
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Application
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A better human-computer interface that could convert from a natural language into a computer language and vice versa. A natural language system could be the interface to a database system, such as for a travel agent to use in making reservations. A visually impaired person could use a natural language system to interact with computers.
As an add-on for language translation program that could translate from one human language to another. Natural language processing will allow for the rudimentary translation, before the involvement of a human translator. This would cut down the time needed for translating documents.
A computer that could understand and process human language, enabling it to convert mass information either from Ebooks or websites, into structured data, before stocking them into a huge database.
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Introduction
Processing of Natural Language is required when you want an intelligent system like robot to perform as per your instructions, when you want to hear decision from a dialogue based clinical expert system, etc.