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NLP

NLP

3 6.1
The study of how computers understand and use human language
  • noun
  • /ɛn ɛl pi/
  • Specialized
: PNL
  • Popularized by success-and-empowerment gurus such as Tony Robbins, NLP has been compared to hypnosis.
  • NLP incorporates
  • use of NLP
  • NLP technique

And we, we know what search and NLP can do.

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Examples

  • Experiencing NLP is the best way of gaining an understanding of its applications.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a powerful tool connecting three elements:

    Academic text (2012)

  • And we, we know what search and NLP can do.

    Lex Fridman

  • And we are using voice recognition NLP knowledge graph to analyze the requirement.

    Stanford

  • John Grinder and Richard Bandler developed NLP in the US in the 1970s.

    Academic text (2012)

  • In conclusion, NLP can be a valuable adjunct to therapeutic interventions, business, and teaching.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The best-known and probably most widely used NLP technique is "anchoring."

    Academic text (2001)

  • Word2vec is an NN embedding model from natural language processing (NLP), which is able to embed words into word vectors.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Natural language processing, or NLP, helps computers understand and analyze human languages.

  • Many companies use NLP to improve customer service through chatbots that can converse in natural language.

Synonyms

natural language processing
vsNLP
  • Specialized
1 5.3

The way computers understand and work with human language

includes that but stresses interaction with linguistics and programming for large datasets
computational linguistics
vsNLP
  • Specialized
1 6.7

The study of language using computers to process and understand speech and text

focuses more on engineering and interaction with large data rather than pure study
human language technology
vsNLP
  • Specialized
1 6.0

A field that makes computers understand and use human speech and writing

is broader combining computer science and linguistics for interaction and large scale processing

Surface Forms

NLP singular
NLPS plural

Morphology

NLP = natural + language + processing (opaque) = N + L + P

The term is an initialism (N-L-P) whose letters do not function as standard English morphemes; understanding requires expansion to 'natural language processing'.

Etymology

The word NLP comes from three English words: natural 'everyday, human', language 'words and speech', and processing 'working on' or 'handling'. Think of processing like a factory that works on everyday human language so computers can understand and use it, which is what modern NLP does.