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Leanne LuceArtificial Intelligence for Fashionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3931-5_2

2. Natural Language Processing and Conversational Shopping

Leanne Luce1 
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San Francisco, CA, USA
 

If you’re not interested, you’re not interesting.

—Iris Apfel, interior designer, fashion icon

Natural language processing (NLP) plays a critical role in human-machine communication. Billions of gigabytes of data are being created by users around the world every day. Most of this content is created in unstructured formats, making it unusable using regular programming techniques. With NLP, this unstructured data can be interpreted by machines without the requirements of strict data structures. To learn more about data and data structures, check ...

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