Components of NLP

There are two components of NLP as given −

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

Understanding involves the following tasks −

      Mapping the given input in natural language into useful representations.

      Analyzing different aspects of the language.

Natural Language Generation (NLG)

It is the process of producing meaningful phrases and sentences in the form of natural language from some internal representation.

It involves −

      Text planningIt includes retrieving the relevant content from knowledge base.

      Sentence planningIt includes choosing required words, forming meaningful phrases, setting tone of the sentence.

      Text Realization It is mapping sentence plan into sentence structure.

The NLU is harder than NLG.