A subset of artificial intelligence that parses human language, written or spoken, to enable functions such as search, categorization, summarization, SQL generation, and translation.
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NLP refers to the subset of AI that summarizes, translates and/or responds to speech or text.
- Kevin Petrie in How COVID-19 Will Drive Adoption of Natural Language Processing
April 6, 2020 (Blog)
Various definitions of NLP exist, but in practice many consider it to be the ability to transcribe audio into text and semantically understand it or abstract data from it. The part of NLP that turns audio into text is a mature technology.
- Henry H. Eckerson in The Demise of the Keyboard – Natural Language Technology Takeover
March 21, 2018 (Blog)
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Jan 17, 2018 - This report defines natural language generation, explains how it works, evaluates the market, outlines use cases, and profiles vendors.
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