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direction                                          Wrist Band

                            Right                                               Band
                                                                                                    Group of people
                                                    correct                                          playing music


                      In Natural Language, the meaning of a word may vary as per its usage in sentences and the context of the text.
                    Semantic analysis involves interpreting the meaning of a word based upon the context in which it is used.
                    For example, the word ‘Right’ may mean ‘direction’ or ‘correct.’

                      Similarly the word ‘Band’ may mean ‘wrist band‘ or ‘a group of people playing music ‘ – hence, the accurate meaning
                    of the word is highly dependent upon its context.


                 Discourse Integration
                   Discourse integration is the fourth phase of NLP, which essentially implies contextualisation. Discourse integration is
                 the process of analysing and identifying the bigger context for a smaller section of natural language structure (such as
                 a phrase, word, entity or sentence).
                   During this phase, it is critical to ensure that each phrase, word, entity or sentence is mentioned in the proper context.
                 This analysis considers sentence structure and semantics as well as sentence combination and overall text meaning.
                 For example: Radha wants it.
                   We can observe from the above sentence that the “it” keyword makes no sense. Hence, this statement is discarded. In
                 reality, it applies to anything we don't know. Here "it" word depends on the prior sentence, which is not provided. So, if
                 we know what "it" is, we can simply find the reference the girl is referring to.






















                   Here its not clear what does Radha wants. It may be laptop, cake, headphone, or tablet. Its not specified what is 'it'
                 referring to.


                 Pragmatic Analysis
                   Pragmatic analysis is the fifth and final stage of NLP. It is the process of abstracting or extracting meaning from the
                 usage of language and interpreting a text using the knowledge obtained from previous NLP procedures. During this
                 stage,  understanding  the  meaning  of  words  and  the  context  in  which  they  are  used  is  completed.  This  allows  for
                 conversational functions between machines and humans (for example, chatbots). It translates the given text using the
                 knowledge gathered in the preceding stages.






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