{{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]] ─ specificallyand [[Artificialartificial Intelligence]] ─ and [[linguisticsintelligence]]. It is primarily concerned with providing computers the ability to process data encoded in [[natural language]] and is thus closely related to [[information retrieval]], typically[[knowledge representation]] and [[computational linguistics]], a subfield of [[linguistics]]. Typically data is collected in [[text corpus|text corpora]], using either rule-based, statistical or neural-based approaches of [[machine learning]] and [[deep learning]].
Major tasks in Naturalnatural Languagelanguage Processingprocessing are [[speech recognition]], [[text classification]], [[natural-language understanding]], and [[natural language generation|natural-language generation]].
