A Crash Course in Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing or NLP allows machines to understand human language and communicate with us. In just 5 minutes, this video provides an overview of what NLP is and how it works.

We'll answer the question: What is NLP? Then, we'll cover the important steps involved in NLP including:

• Tokenization - Breaking down text into individual words or tokens

• Part-of-speech tagging - Identifying the grammatical category of each word

• Lemmatization - Reducing words to their base form

• Named entity recognition - Identifying names of people, places, organizations, etc.

• Sentiment analysis - Determining if text has a positive, negative or neutral sentiment

By the end of the video, you'll have a basic understanding of how NLP enables machines to interpret and interact with human language.