Natural Language Processing
Beyond numerical data, a vast amount of human knowledge and experience is captured in text and audio. The ubiquity of words in daily life and the need for effective human-computer interactions make the ability to process human language a crucial part of artificial intelligence.
As a multidisciplinary field straddling linguistics, computer science, and AI, natural language processing empowers computers with the capability to understand and reproduce human language. Inspired by linguistics—the study of language and semantics—NLP was originally designed for parsing text in databases using coding rule systems, but over time, it merged with common algorithms from machine learning to evolve into a novel and specialized field of computational linguistics. Now, as a field of its own, NLP involves analyzing human language with reduced emphasis on quantitative problem-solving, which is typically the focus of other subfields related to AI.
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