Diff for Natural language processing

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== Natural language processing ==

'''Natural language processing''' (NLP) is a subfield of [[artificial intelligence]] concerned with the interaction between computers and human language. The goal of NLP is to enable machines to understand, interpret, and generate human language in a way that is both meaningful and useful. Applications range from [[machine translation]] and [[sentiment analysis]] to [[chatbots]] and [[voice assistants]].

The field draws on [[computational linguistics]], [[computer science]], and [[statistical modeling]] to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data. Early approaches relied on hand-crafted rules and [[symbolic AI]], but modern NLP is dominated by [[deep learning]] and [[neural networks]], particularly [[transformer models]] such as [[BERT]] and [[GPT]].

== History ==

NLP research began in the 1950s, notably with the [[Georgetown–IBM experiment]] in 1954, which demonstrated automatic translation of Russian sentences into English. During the 1960s and 1970s, researchers developed rule-based systems for [[syntax]] and [[semantics]], such as [[SHRDLU]] and [[ELIZA]]. The 1980s saw the rise of [[statistical NLP]], using [[corpora]] and [[machine learning]] algorithms.

The 2010s brought a revolution with the introduction of [[word embeddings]] (e.g., [[word2vec]], [[GloVe]]) and later [[attention mechanisms]]. The release of the [[Transformer architecture]] in 2017 led to [[pretrained language models]] like [[GPT-2]], [[BERT]], and [[GPT-3]], dramatically improving performance on tasks such as [[question answering]] and [[text generation]].

== Features ==

* '''[[Tokenization]]''': Splitting text into words, subwords, or characters.
* '''[[Part-of-speech tagging]]''': Assigning grammatical labels (noun, verb, etc.) to tokens.
* '''[[Named entity recognition]]''': Identifying entities like people, organizations, and locations.
* '''[[Sentiment analysis]]''': Determining the emotional tone of text.
* '''[[Machine translation]]''': Translating text between languages.
* '''[[Text summarization]]''': Generating concise summaries of longer documents.
* '''[[Question answering]]''': Providing answers to questions posed in natural language.
* '''[[Speech recognition]]''' and [[text-to-speech]]: Converting between spoken and written language.

[[Category:Artificial intelligence]]
[[Category:Computational linguistics]]
[[Category:Subfields of computer science]]