将一篇英文文章翻译成中文。 
以下是一篇英文文章的开头，需要将其翻译成中文： 

"In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) has made impressive advances, thanks to the development of machine learning techniques and the availability of large-scale textual data. NLP has many applications in various domains, such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, text summarization, and question answering."
近年来，自然语言处理（NLP）基于机器学习技术和大规模文本数据的可用性取得了显著进展。NLP在各个领域都有许多应用，如机器翻译，情感分析，文本摘要和问答系统等。