Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Future Directions

Natural language processing (NLP) is a well-known sub-field of artificial intelligence that is having huge success and attention in recent years, its applications are also exploding in terms of innovation and consumer adoption, personal voice assistants and chatbots are two examples among many others, despite this recent success, NLP still has huge challenges and open issues. In this paper, we provide a short overview of NLP, then we dive into the different challenges that are facing it, finally, we conclude by presenting recent trends and future research directions that are speculated by the research community.