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NLP - Natural Language processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) refers to AI method of communicating with an Intelligent systems using a natural language such as English.



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.
The field of NLP involves making computers to perform useful tasks with the natural languagesh use. The input and output of an NLP system can be:
  •  Speech
  •  Written Text


Components of NLP


Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Understanding involves the following tasks:
  •  Mapping the given input in natural language into useful representations.
  •  Analyzing different aspects of the language.

Natural Language Generation (NLG)
It is the process of producing meaningful phrases and sentences in the form of natural language from some internal representation.
It involves:
  • Text planning: It includes retrieving the relevant content from knowledge base.
  •  Sentence planning: It includes choosing required words, forming meaning.  
  • Text Realization: It is mapping sentence plan into sentence structure.

Steps  in NLP
There are general five steps:

  1.  Lexical Analysis It involves identifying and analyzing the structure of words. Lexicon of a language means the collection of words and phrases in a language. Lexical analysis is dividing the whole chunk of txt into paragraphs, sentences, and words.
  2.  Syntactic Analysis (Parsing) It involves analysis of words in the sentence for grammar and arranging words in a manner that shows the relationship among the words. The sentence such as “The school goes to boy” is rejected by English syntactic analyzer.
  3. Semantic Analysis It draws the exact meaning or the dictionary meaning from the text. The text is checked for meaningfulness. It is done by mapping syntactic structures and objects in the task domain. The semantic analyzer disregards sentence such as “hot ice-cream”.
  4. Discourse IntegrationThe meaning of any sentence depends upon the meaning of the sentence just beforeit. In addition, it also brings about the meaning of immediately succeeding sentence.
  5. Pragmatic Analysis During  what was said is re-interpreted on what it actually meant. It involves deriving those aspects of language which require real world knowledge.

NLP Terminology

  • Phonology: It is study of organizing sound systematically.
  •  Morphology: It is a study of construction of words from primitive meaningful units.
  • Morpheme: It is primitive unit of meaning in a language.
  •  Syntax: It refers to arranging words to make a sentence. It also involves determining the structural role of words in the sentence and in phrases.
  • Semantics: It is concerned with the meaning of words and how to combine words into meaningful phrases and sentences.
  • Pragmatics: It deals with using and understanding sentences in different situations and how the interpretation of the sentence is affected.
  • Discourse: It deals with how the immediately preceding sentence can affect the interpretation of the next sentence.
  •  World Knowledge: It includes the general knowledge about the world.

Difficulties in NLU

  •  NL has an extremely rich form and structure.
  • It is very ambiguous. There can be different levels of ambiguity:
  1. Lexical ambiguity: It is at very primitive level such as word-level.For example, treating the word “board” as noun or verb? Syntax Level ambiguity: A sentence can be parsed in different ways.For example, “He lifted the beetle with red cap.” – Did he use cap to lift the beetle or he lifted a beetle that had red cap 
  2. Referential ambiguity: Referring to something using pronouns. For example, Rima went to Gauri. She said, “I am tired.” - Exactly who is tired One input can mean different meanings. Many inputs can mean the same thing.


AI issues - 


AI is developing with such an incredible speed, sometimes it seems magical. There is an opinion among researchers and developers that AI could grow so immensely strong that it would be difficult for humans to control.
Humans developed AI systems by introducing into them every possible intelligence they could, for which the humans themselves now seem threatened.

  • Threat to Privacy
  • An AI program that recognizes speech and understands natural language is theoretically capable of understanding each conversation on e-mails and telephones.

  • Threat to Human Dignity
  • AI systems have already started replacing the human beings in few industries. It should not replace people in the sectors where they are holding dignified positions which are pertaining to ethics such as nursing, surgeon, judge, police officer, etc. 

  • Threat to Safety
  • The self-improving AI systems can become so mighty than humans that could be very difficult to stop from achieving their goals, which may lead to unintended consequences.

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