Natural Language Processing
A branch of AI that enables computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language.
Also: Natural Language Processing
Definition
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of artificial intelligence focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language in a meaningful way. NLP tasks include text classification, sentiment analysis, machine translation, named entity recognition, question answering, and text generation. Modern NLP is dominated by transformer-based models (BERT, GPT) trained on massive text corpora. NLP powers applications like virtual assistants, chatbots, grammar checkers, and machine translation services.
Example
“A customer service chatbot uses NLP to understand that 'I want to cancel my subscription' and 'stop charging me' carry the same intent.”
Synonyms
- natural language understanding
- text AI
- computational linguistics
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Related Terms
- machine-learning
- deep-learning
- transformer
- sentiment-analysis