"Learning NLP is like learning the language of your own mind!"
What is Natural Language Processing or NLP?
NLP or Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of Artificial Intelligence in which it strives computers to analyse, understand, and derive meaning from human language in much the same way humans do. With NLP, humans can determine the intended meaning of text or voice data and can perform tasks such as automatic summarization, Natural language generation, co-reference resolution, relationship extraction, sentiment analysis, speech recognition, Virtual agents and chatbots, Text Summarization.
NLP has a large assortment of applications in different fields. One such application is Education technology. Natural language processing enriches the study experience of students across the world and its role in education have already been proven to be blooming day by day. Considering the humongous amount of human generated unstructured data source, it is always difficult for the analyst to structure and organise text into data for analysis.
Natural Language Processing triggers the developers to create meaningful insight from text that could result in the convincing business transformation. It is also an effective approach for authors, teachers, educators, and students for providing assistance in writing, analysis, and assessment procedures. Natural Language Processing not only tracks the gap between human language and computer understanding but also is widely used in research and educational system. Natural Language Processing is already ruling the world and for sure it's going to rule in future decades too.
The potential applications of NLP in Education
• Educators can strive to improve their teaching pedagogy associated with the learners, as NLP can analyse the general mindset and emotions of learners through their interactions.
• NLP based education technology platforms can enhance the inquisitiveness among the learners and thereby increase the effectiveness of formal education.
• NLP based systems can strive to enhance the Emotional Intelligence of learners thereby improving the overall productivity and leadership in the long run.
• Administrators and staff at educational institutions can use NLP semantic and sentiment analysis to study student's behaviour in response to the changes in their academic and social environments.
Benefits of NLP
• NLP can be a huge help to students who got struck up in class in reading and writing. NLP helps to learn their lessons faster with increased span of attention.
• NLP in education can help student’s language and communication skill with reading material and by giving formative feedback.
• NLP machine learning technology has the ability to analyze the language used by both teachers and students in a class and can rate the quality of language acquisition.
• NLP helps students adjust to new environment with ease and helps student stay focussed on their goal.
Hence, Natural Language Processing is a way forward to brighten the Education systems across the globe by enhancing the learner experience and to increase in education inclusion among the population. Hence, NLP plays a vital role in improving literacy rate across the globe.