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Natural Language Processing (NLP)

The branch of AI focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. Encompasses tasks from sentiment analysis to machine translation to question answering. Two umbrella terms live underneath: understanding (NLU) versus generation (NLG), plus text mining, the enterprise word for extracting signal from document piles.

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TokenizationParsingNERSentiment analysisMachine translationNLU & NLGText mining

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