The branch of Artificial Intelligence called "Natural Language Processing" has an interesting history, which includes moments of glory, monumental errors in the forecasts, winters, resurgencies, a bright present and a promising future (although go to know).
I will try to tell a little about each thing, starting to see what we are talking about when we talk about this engineering branch of computational linguistics.
And, of yapa, some aspects of his academic world that could be at the base of his success