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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Origin Year
1950 1
Core Concern
Enabling 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
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Alan Turing, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
Artificial Intelligence, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
Human-Robot Interaction, Fields
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Information Retrieval, Fields
Machine Learning, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing

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Prolog, Programming Languages
Source Wikipedia: Prolog
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Introduction, before History subsection
    Major processing tasks in an NLP system include: speech recognition, text classification, natural language understanding, and natural language generation.
  • History section
    Natural language processing has its roots in the 1950s.
  • History section, Turing's paper
    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.
  • Lead section
    Natural language processing (NLP) is the processing of natural language information by a computer.
  • Associated With: Alan Turing, History section, Turing's 1950 paper
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Wikipedia: Prolog
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Prolog, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Prolog, Lead section
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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Human-Robot Interaction (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Human-Robot Interaction, Lead section, first two sentences
Quote, Associated With: Human-Robot Interaction, Lead section, first two sentences
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is the study of interactions between humans and robots. Human-robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language processing, design, psychology and philosophy.
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