The Evolution of Natural Language Processing: A...

The Evolution of Natural Language Processing: A Journey from 1960 to 2020 How we taught machines to understand human language — from simple pattern matching to transformer-powered AI Introduction: The Dream of Conversational Machines Imagine asking a machine a question in plain English and receiving a thoughtful, contextual response. Today, this seems ordinary — we talk to Siri, Alexa, and ChatGPT without a second thought. But six decades ago, this was pure science fiction. Natural Language Proc