NLP Information Extraction | Information Extraction in NLP

The field of artificial intelligence has always envisioned machines being able to mimic the functioning and abilities of the human mind. Language is considered as one of the most significant achievements of humans that has accelerated the progress of humanity. So, it is not a surprise that there is plenty of work being done to integrate language into the field of artificial intelligence in the form of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Today we see the work being manifested in likes of Alexa and Siri. NLP primarily comprises of natural language understanding (human to machine) and natural language generation (machine to human). This article will mainly deal with natural language understanding (NLU). In recent years there has been a surge in unstructured data in the form of text, videos, audio and photos. NLU aids in extracting valuable information from text such as social media data, customer surveys, and complaints.