CSA Magpie Lab

From Eliza in the 1960s to Siri and Watson today, the idea of talking to computers in natural language has fascinated people. More and more, computer programs allow people to interact with them by typing English sentences. The field of computer science that addresses how computers can understand human language is called natural language processing (NLP).

NLP is a field that attempts to have computers understand natural (i.e., human) language. There are many exciting breakthroughs in the field.

For this lab, you will explore some of the basics of NLP. As you explore this, you will work with a variety of methods of the String class and practice using the if statement. You will trace a method to find words in user input.