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'''Natural language processing''' ('''NLP''') <ref>{{Cite web |last=kumar |first=sumit |date=10/10/2024 |title=The Power of Language: How Natural Language Processing(NLP) is Transforming Technology? |url=https://sumitkumarhx.medium.com/the-power-of-language-how-natural-language-processing-nlp-is-transforming-technology-d8bd7122170f |url-status=live |access-date=10/10/2024 |website=Medium}}</ref>is a subfield of [[computer science]] and especially [[artificial intelligence]]. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with the ability to process data encoded in [[natural language]] and is thus closely related to [[information retrieval]], [[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 in [[machine learning]] and [[deep learning]].
Major tasks in natural language processing are [[speech recognition]], [[text classification]], [[natural-language understanding]], and [[natural language generation|natural-language generation]].
