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{{Short description|Field of linguistics and computer science}}
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'''Natural language processing''' ('''NLP''') 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]].<ref name="nlpintro">
{{cite book |last=Eisenstein |first=Jacob |date=October 1, 2019 |title=Introduction to Natural Language Processing |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262042840/introduction-to-natural-language-processing/ |___location= |publisher=The MIT Press |page=1 |isbn=9780262042840 |access-date=}}</ref>
 
Major tasks in natural language processing are [[speech recognition]], [[text classification]], [[natural-language understanding|natural language understanding]], and [[natural language generation]].
 
 
== History ==