Natural language processing, or NLP for short, is best described as “AI for speech and text.” The magic behind voice commands, speech and text translation, sentiment analysis, text summarization, and ...

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Natural language processing (NLP) is important because it enables machines to understand, interpret and generate human language, which is the primary means of communication between people. By using ...

Search engines have come a long way from relying on exact match keywords. Today, they try to understand the meaning behind content — what it says, how it says it, and whether it truly answers the ...