Other applications

There are several other applications of NLP; the following is a list of some of them:

  • Detecting spam: The emails that we receive can be classified as spam or not spam.
  • News classification: It can be useful to classify a news item based on several categories.
  • Identifying the speakers, gender, or age: From a piece of text, the writer's gender and age can be detected. Similar attributes can be marked with voice data.
  • Discovering topics: The topics of an article can be identified.
  • Generating text: Text generated by machines has a lot of interesting applications.
  • Finding duplicates: Skype has launched a live translation feature that involves speech to text, machine translation, and text-to-speech.
  • Summarizing textThe summarization task takes a text as input and outputs a summary of that text. The summary is usually much shorter than the original text. For example, after a meeting, the transcript text can be summarized and sent to everyone.
  • Comprehending paragraphs: Paragraph comprehension is the high school task of answering questions, with respect to a given piece of prose.
  • Constituency parsing: Constituency parsing predicts a tree composition of a sentence into its constituents http://demo.allennlp.org/constituency-parsing.
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