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{{Short description|Field of linguistics and computer science}}{{More citations needed|date=May 2024}}{{Other uses|NLP (disambiguation){{!}}NLP}}{{About|natural language processing done by computers|the natural language processing done by the human brain|Language processing in the brain}}
'''Natural language processing''' ('''NLP''') is an [[interdisciplinary]] subfield of [[computer science]] and [[information retrieval]]. It is primarily concerned with giving computers the ability to support and manipulate human language. It involves processing [[natural language]] datasets, such as [[text corpus|text corpora]] or speech corpora, using either rule-based or probabilistic (i.e. statistical and, most recently, neural network-based) [[machine learning]] approaches. The goal is a computer capable of "understanding"{{Citation needed|reason=Clarification needed. Why is term in quotation marks?|date=March 2024}} the contents of documents, including the [[context (language use)|contextual]] nuances of the language within them. To this end, natural language processing often borrows ideas from [[theoretical linguistics]]. The technology can then accurately extract information and insights contained in the documents as well as categorize and organize the documents themselves.
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