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natural language processing

noun \ˈna-chə-rəl ˈlaŋ-gwij ˈprä-ˌse-siŋ\

also NLP

TopicFundamentals First known use1950s Senses1
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Definition of natural language processing

  1. : the field of AI concerned with getting computers to understand, generate, and work with human language

    • Translation, spam filtering and chatbots all fall under natural language processing.
    • Large language models upended NLP research almost overnight.

Origin & history

first known use1950s

Work on machine translation in the 1950s marks the start of the field.

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