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Natural Language Processing
7.1 What is Natural Language Processing?
Natural language processing is the manipulation or understanding of text or speech by a computer software. As humans interact, they understand each other views, and respond with an appropriate answer; similarly, NLP systems also interact, understand and respond to queries. The contrast between Natural Language and Computer Language can be understood from Table 7.1
Natural language processing, a field of artificial intelligence, studies interactions between computers and human (natural) languages. It applies machine learning algorithms to text and speech. For example, NLP can be used to create intelligent systems for speech recognition, machine translation, question answering, ...
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