Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and artificial intelligence that deals with the interaction between computers and human languages. The primary goal of NLP is to enable computers to understand, interpret, and generate natural language, the way humans do 12. In this talk, we will explore the basics of NLP and its applications. We will cover topics such as syntactic and semantic analysis, speech recognition, natural language understanding, natural language generation, and more. We will also discuss how NLP has benefited from recent advances in machine learning, especially from deep learning techniques 1. By the end of this talk, you will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of NLP and how it can be applied to real-world problems.