Broadly, Natural Language Processing (or NLP for short) consists of developing a set of algorithms and tools so that machines can make sense of data available in natural (human) languages such as English, German, French, etc. Although there are traces of NLP research since a long time ago, the concept got well defined in the 1950s, with the breakthrough research work of Alan Turing and Noam Chomsky.

This tutorial introduces you to the various applications, challenges and approaches within NLP. In this course, we'll build many of these applications and encounter the challenges described.