What is NLP (Natural Language Processing)?

Every time you surf the internet you encounter a Natural Language Processing, or NLP, application. But what exactly is NLP and how does it work?

In this lightboard video, Master Inventor with IBM, Martin Keen, visually explains what NLP is and why we need it, as well as how NLP takes unstructured human speech and converts it to structured data that a computer can understand.

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Unstructured data
1:12 - Structured data
2:03 - Natural Language Understanding (NLU) & Natural Language Generation (NLG)
2:36 - Machine Translation use case
3:40 - Virtual Assistance / Chat Bots use case
4:14 - Sentiment Analysis use case
4:44 - Spam Detection use case
5:44 - Tokenization
6:18 - Stemming & Lemmatization
7:42 - Part of Speech Tagging
8:22 - Named Entity Recognition (NER)
9:08 - Summary

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[HoldenHaan]

Love how the instructor is smiling almost the whole time. It’s awesome to see some truly passionate about what they do.

[achuunnikrishnan-wh]

who fell in love with this man? really i had to here my lecture once more because of his clam and soft nature

[yilmazmustafa]

Watching this tutorial was one of the most efficient time I've ever had. I can learn anything with this kind of teachning style. Thank you.

[think]

I am not a really smart lady, which makes it challenging to grasp certain concepts, but you made it super easy to understand NLP and relevant applications. So, thank you, Martin Keen.

[bharathkm]

The days are not too far to play a toughest note using piano, fly an airplane and manage household chores using NLP. You explained it really well, thank you!

[olhakunt]

Thank You for this video, Martin! A positive and professional attitude is so much seen even through the screen. It's fantastic to listen to the real masters in their field who enjoy what they do and are ready to share their knowledge with beginners!

[eugenefritz]

You're a really great taecher.
Massive congrats. I could hear you for a whole day, cheers.

[gauravpadole]

Better explanation than my university professor. Thank you so much.

[sephyshen]

Good job, sir. I can feel your passion in the video for sharing NLP fundamentals for people who are interested in. Thank you.

[SPaICTHub]

Thank you for this explicit explanation of what NLP, NLU, and NLG mean.

[reggenius]

Apt and concise explaination, love everything about the presentation; background, screen board... everything!

[AllenJohn]

No one is going to bring up the topic on how Martin is writing everything backwards so that we are read it properly?

[shireen]

This is the kind of explanation i was looking for, so that I can never forget it in the future. Whew! Thanks!

[MuhammadUsman-uuei]

Way of explanation is next level. I understand the concept in one go.Thanks 👍

[rachidphinixi]

have watched many videos abt nlp but to be honest m this is theh best, it just took me back to the classroom. best professor ever. love your way

[wrigleyandfenway]

Love this guy! Wish he was my instructor in all my classes!

[carobills]

Great explanation, it makes language and networks truly easy to understand

[gogyoo]

I'm about to embark on learning Data Science, so this video helped me deciding I had NO interest whatsoever in NLP. Thank you Martin nevertheless for making this useful primer.

[saifulislamsarfaraz]

This is a really amazing explanation. I leant lot of from this tutorial Thanks IBM and Thanks Martin.

[johng]

Thanks in a million. Great content. Awesome. Very well explained. I couldn't find this explanation--simply put anywhere else. Great teachers are hard to find. Grade: A++💥