We don’t often think about how easy it is for humans to understand language. In everyday conversation, we convey meaning without considering how our brains translate so much unstructured data into useful information. For machines, however, understanding human speech and language is very hard. Natural language processing, or NLP, is a field concerned with enabling machines to understand human language.

In this episode, guest Sinan Ozdemir sits down with TDS to discuss the use of natural language processing in the industry. We focus on how to design and implement conversational AI algorithms, how to successfully integrate them, the hard and soft skills you need for a career in natural language processing, and more!