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Natural Language Processing
The branch of AI concerned with understanding and generating human language.
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Natural language processing (NLP) spans tasks from translation and sentiment analysis to summarisation and question answering. Older systems relied on hand-built linguistic rules and statistical models; today transformer-based language models dominate. NLP is the technology behind chatbots, search, transcription and most text-focused AI products.
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