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#REDIRECT [[Computational linguistics]]

Natural Language Processing (NLP), sometimes also referred to

as [[computational linguistics]], is the sub-discipline of

[[Artificial Intelligence]] (AI) that deals with the analysis,

understanding, and generation of human languages.

Examples of NLP include computer systems that automatically

* translate text from Japanese to English ([[machine translation]])

* answer a plain English question with succinct information extracted from large collections of documents

* summarize a newspaper article