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Natural language processing

Also called NLP

What does “Natural language processing” mean?

Natural language processing: The area of AI concerned with understanding, analyzing and generating human language, written or spoken. It covers tasks like translation, summarization, sentiment analysis and question answering. Large language models now handle many of these tasks within a single system.

Natural language processing visual guide: The area of AI concerned with understanding, analyzing and generating human language, written or spoken. It covers tasks like translation, summarization, sentiment analysis and question answering. Large language models now handle many of these tasks within a single system.
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What is an example of “Natural language processing”?

Automatic translation, email autocomplete and grammar checkers are classic NLP applications.

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See also

Large language modelTermChatbotTermSpeech-to-textTermTokenizerTerm

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