A Study on Historical Perspective of Natural Language Processing

Abstract

A language is a system, a set of rules or set of symbols. Symbols are combined and used for conveying information or broadcasting the information. The Language is the way of communicating your words. The Language helps in understanding the world in better way. NLP Stands for Natural Language Processing. Natural languages are those languages that are spoken by the persons in daily routine. Natural language processing is the field of computer science (CS), artificial intelligence (AI), and linguistics predominantly focuses on intercommunications between computers and the human languages (natural languages). NLP is focused on the area of human computer intercommunication. The exigency for the natural language processing was felt because there is an immense storage of information stored in natural language that could be accessible through the computers. Information is generated in the form of books, business and government reports news, scientific papers, many of which are available online. A system requiring a great understanding of information must be able to process natural language to fetch much of the information available or present on the computers. Natural Language Processing is provocative and tough field in which we have to develop and analyze the representation and the reasoning theories. All of the problems of Artificial Intelligence arise in this domain; solving "the natural language problem" is as complex as solving "the AI problem" because any field can be expressed or can be represented in natural language. Keywords: Naturallanguageprocessing (NLP), Syntactic, Semantic, Pragmatic, Lexical, Linguistics, Morphological, Discourse Integration, Machine Learning.