Component of Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Serigne DIAW
4 min readFeb 11, 2022

As we have already learned about the Introduction to NLP, So let us know about the component of NLP. Here there are two things that we have discussed in the classification section. For any communication to take place, these two things are necessary. The first is understanding, and the other is a generation (as known as responding in a more common language).

When humans talk to each other, the first thing that other humans do is understand the context. Later formulate the response accordingly that makes sense. This is what the two terms try to say with Natural language understanding, it means to understand the context, and Natural language generation relates to sensible response to the context.

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) :

if you know what is ambiguity (different meaning of any particular thing), this term directly relates to this word.

  • Lexical (word level) : Lexical work at the word level, imagine any word used as a verb and used as a noun. These are crucial to deciding for NLP.
  • Syntactical (Parsing) : Parsing is a kind of synonym for syntactical as per NLP is concerned. Eg. “Call me a cab” this sentence has two implications if you think. One is a request to get a cab while the other implementation says; my name is cab so call me a cab. This is…

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