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NLP

Natural Language Processing

Natural language processing is technology that helps computers work with human language.

Explained simply

Natural language processing is technology that helps computers work with human language.

1Human language
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2NLP processing
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3Understand or generate
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4Useful text result

At a glance

Category
Concepts
Difficulty
Intermediate
Introduced
1950s

Real example

An email tool detects the meaning and tone of a customer complaint.

Why it matters

It gives you a clear way to understand where this idea fits in AI and how it affects the tools you use.

Timeline

Origins

The ideas behind NLP begin developing.

1950s

NLP becomes a recognised term or technique.

Wider use

Research and practical applications increase.

Modern AI

NLP becomes connected to newer AI systems and products.

Today

NLP remains relevant in the concepts area of AI.

Dates for broad concepts may describe the period when the idea emerged or became widely used, rather than one exact invention date.

Learn next

Continue with these connected terms:

LLMA large language model is an AI trained on huge amounts of text so it can understand and generate language.→BERTBERT is a language model designed to understand the meaning of words by looking at the words before and after them.→TokenA token is a small piece of text that an AI model reads or writes. It may be a word, part of a word or punctuation.→

Simple infographic

A quick visual way to understand NLP.

1Human language
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2NLP processing
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3Understand or generate
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4Useful text result
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