Natural language processing is the amalgamation of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics so that there can be smooth conversation between the computers and humans, and it does so by empowering the computer to analyze the input, that is, what is being said by the user and processes the contextual meaning. Following are the areas where NLP is being used efficiently: 1) NLP is used for the purpose of communicating meaningful information extracted from the complex big data sources 2) NLP is used for data privacy, in comparison to the traditional old methods, it helps the businesses to detect the phishing and malware sites in a much easier way. 3) NLP is used for the better understanding of the questions of the users and answering them in a seemingly natural human language. Read more at http://www.dataversity.net/natural-language-processing/