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Natural Language Processing

The field of AI focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language.

Definition

The field of AI focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. Covers tasks like translation, sentiment analysis, question answering, summarization, and text generation. Large language models have transformed NLP from a collection of specialized tools into a unified capability.

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Natural Language Processing.

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An AI model that understands and generates human language.

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