What is a natural language processing?
The field of teaching computers to process what a user said or typed using linguistic rules.
natural language processing explained in plain English
The field of teaching computers to process what a user said or typed using linguistic rules. Almost all modern natural language processing relies on machine learning.
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Practitioners refer to natural language processing when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.
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