It is clear that Natural Language Processing
takes a very important roll in new machine human interfaces. When we look
at some of the products that are based on technologies with NLP we can
see that they are very advanced but not very useful. There are many limitations,
requiring improvements and developement of NLP oriented systems. For example
language we speak is highly ambiguous. This makes it very difficult understand
and analyze. Also with so many languages spoken all over the world it is
very difficult to design a system that is 100% accurate. These problems
get more complicated when we think of different people speaking the same
language with different styles. Therefore most of research on speech recognition
is more concentrated on there areas. Information retrieval can be improved
to give very accurate results for various searches. This will involve intelligence
to find and sort all the results. So such intelligent systems are being
experimented right now and we will be able to see improved applications
of NLP in the near future.
Even though Natural Language Processing is still at its very early stage
of development, its potential of being widely used in the internet is already
emerging. Though many of the current systems are still in their experimental
stages, results have been promising. With the recent explosive growth of the
internet, much more extensive usage of NLP would be expected in the near
future. Multimedia databases and digital libraries might well overtake their
present counterparts as the main media for information sharing and communications.
NLP might be "the subject" of the future.
What can we expect in the FUTURE
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Well there are so many applications we can dream with
NLP techniques. How about robots that understand and follow instructions
by human voice or driving by talking to the car like in some science fiction
movies. Well they all can be real one day. Imagine we have a computer system
that can follow simple human instructions and do what ever we want it to
do. How convenient will it be ?
But lets leave all that to the FUTURE.........