Natural language processing

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Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science - specifically Artificial Intelligence - and linguistics. It is primarily concerned with providing computers the ability to process data encoded in natural language, typically collected in text corpora, using either rule-based, statistical or neural-based approaches of machine learning and deep learning.

Major tasks in Natural Language Processing are speech recognition, text classification, natural-language understanding, and natural-language generation.