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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on enabling machines to understand, analyze, and generate human language. It combines computational linguistics, machine learning, and deep learning to process text and speech data in a meaningful way.

NLP is widely used in industries such as technology, healthcare, finance, customer service, and e-commerce. Common applications include sentiment analysis, machine translation, chatbots, speech recognition, text summarization, and named entity recognition. Professionals with NLP expertise typically work as data scientists, machine learning engineers, computational linguists, or AI researchers.

Processes and analyzes large volumes of text or spoken language data
Implements models for language understanding and generation
Uses machine learning frameworks and linguistic rules
Develops systems like virtual assistants and automated customer support
Evaluates model performance using metrics like accuracy and F1 score
Works with multilingual and low-resource languages

Individuals skilled in NLP are expected to understand core algorithms such as tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, and dependency parsing, as well as modern transformer-based models like BERT and GPT. Familiarity with libraries and tools including spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face Transformers, and TensorFlow or PyTorch is essential. Knowledge of Python, data preprocessing, and statistical modeling is also required. As NLP systems handle sensitive or personal data, practitioners must consider ethical implications such as bias mitigation and data privacy. The field continues to evolve with advancements in pre-trained language models and real-time language processing applications.

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