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Natural Language Processing (NLP), sometimes also referred to

as computational linguistics, is the sub-discipline of

Artificial Intelligence (AI) that deals with the analysis,

understanding, and generation of human languages.


Examples of NLP include computer systems that automatically


  • answer a plain English question with succinct information extracted from large collections of documents
  • summarize a newspaper article