The Natural Language Processing Association of India (NLPAI) is the premier national scientific and professional society to promote research and development activities in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and Indian languages.
Activities of the NLPAI include organizing the annual flagship conference; holding annual meeting; promoting cooperation and information exchange among related professional and technical societies worldwide; representing natural language processing to foundations and government agencies worldwide.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) in very simple words means a form of artificial intelligence through which human language, be it written, spoken or even scribbled, is made understandable to a computer. With AI-powered devices on the rise, NLP has a deep impact on our everyday lives.
Judging by the newfound interest of industry in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and speech technology, the area is poised for major expansion. The research groups have also become ambitious in the problems they are addressing and are expanding rapidly in size. Push from the government regarding e-Governance and Mass access to information in digital form is also a healthy factor.
Some of the prominent NLP problems are Machine Translation, Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Question-Answering, Information Extraction, Conversational Agent, Summarization, Natural Language Generation, Large Language Models etc.
Popular textbooks in Natural Language Processing include: