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Also known as NLP

field of computer science and linguistics

AI overview

Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics that focuses on enabling computers to understand and work with human language. It matters because it helps power many technologies we use daily, like voice assistants, translation apps, and search engines.

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Natural language processing (NLP) is the processing of natural language information by a computer. NLP is a subfield of computer science and is closely associated with artificial intelligence. NLP is also related to information retrieval, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, and linguistics more broadly.

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