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This report from The Brookings Institution’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology (AIET) Initiative is part of “AI and Bias,” a series that explores ways to mitigate possible biases and create a pathway toward greater fairness in AI and emerging technologies. Unsupervised artificial intelligence (AI) models that automatically discover hidden patterns in natural language datasets capture linguistic … Read more

Natural language processing (NLP) is an artificial intelligence (AI) technique that helps a computer understand and interpret naturally evolved languages (no, Klingon doesn’t count) as opposed to artificial computer languages like Java or Python. Its ability to understand the intricacies of human language, including context and cultural nuances, makes it an integral part of AI … Read more

Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of computer science and artificial intelligence concerned with the interaction between computers and humans in natural language. The ultimate goal of NLP is to help computers understand language as well as we do. It is the driving force behind things like virtual assistants, speech recognition, sentiment analysis, automatic text summarization, … Read more

Natural language processing (or NLP for short) refers to technology that allows computers to understand human language. NLP is what helps computers read, edit and summarize text – as well as enabling natural language generation (NLG), whereby computers generate their own “speech.” In other words, NLP is the technology that enables Siri to understand your … Read more

Natural language processing (NLP) is particularly useful in helping AI understand language contextually. As a result, data extraction from text-based documents becomes feasible, as does facilitating complex analytics processes such as sentiment analysis, voice recognition, topic modeling, entity recognition and chatbots. Natural language processing is used to facilitate analysis of unstructured data like text from emails … Read more

Natural language processing uses artificial intelligence to replicate human speech and text on computing devices. eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Natural language processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on computers incorporating speech and … Read more

Natural language processing, or NLP, is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based technique that makes machine learning useful for business applications. According to a 2021 McKinsey survey, more than half of businesses use AI for at least one process, and several are in advanced stages of AI implementation. NLP streamlines information exchange between human beings and machines … Read more

Interest in NLP has risen rapidly this year, in conjunction with the rise of AI chatbots. To be clear, we’re talking about natural language processing, not neuro linguistic programming; The latter falls outside the remit of PC Guide. The former is a branch of artificial intelligence, and the most accessible kind today. So, what is natural language … Read more

Pose that question to Alexa – or Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant, or any other voice-activated digital assistant – and it will use natural language processing (NLP) to try to answer your question about, um, natural language processing. That makes Alexa and its ilk a natural example of NLP in action: NLP is a core technology … Read more