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Natural Language Processing
Also Known As NLP
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Natural language processing is a field of computer science and artificial intelligence concerned with the computational processing of human language. It spans tasks from speech recognition and text classification to natural language understanding and generation, drawing on computational linguistics, knowledge representation and information retrieval.
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Core ConcernEnabling computers to process, understand and generate human language, historically tracing to Alan Turing's 1950 paper proposing what became known as the Turing test. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
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Major processing tasks in an NLP system include: speech recognition, text classification, natural language understanding, and natural language generation.
1. Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
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Natural language processing has its roots in the 1950s.
1. Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
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Already in 1950, Alan Turing published an article titled 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence,' which proposed what is now called the Turing test as a criterion of intelligence.
1. Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
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Natural language processing (NLP) is the processing of natural language information by a computer.
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Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Alan Turing, History section, Turing's 1950 paperView the Source Wikipedia: Prolog
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The language has been used for theorem proving, expert systems, term rewriting, type systems, automated planning, and question answering as well as its original intended field of use, natural language processing.
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