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The '''history of natural language processing''' describes the advances of [[natural language processing]] (Outline of natural language processing). There is some overlap with the [[history of machine translation]], the [[history of speech recognition]], and the [[history of artificial intelligence]].

==[[Research on medit|Research]] and development ==

The history of machine translation dates back to the seventeenth century, when philosophers such as [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]] and [[Descartes]] put forward proposals for codes which would relate words between languages. All of these proposals remained theoretical, and none resulted in the development of an actual machine.