This session highlights the advancements and applications in NLP, from traditional tokenization and parsing techniques to modern large language models (LLMs). Topics will include machine translation, information extraction, text summarization, and sentiment analysis. Recent breakthroughs like ChatGPT and instruction-tuned transformers will be discussed in depth. Practical applications in legal tech, customer service automation, and content moderation will be covered. The session aims to bridge the gap between academic research and production-level NLP systems.