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06 · Language & Perception

NLP

Natural Language Processing

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The whole field of getting computers to work with human language. LLMs are the current dominant approach, but NLP is the umbrella.

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Spam filters, translation, and chatbots are all NLP applications.

Nearby in Language & Perception

CVComputer VisionMultimodalMultiple data types, unifiedNLU / NLGNatural Language Understanding / GenerationOCROptical Character Recognition
Previous term← MultimodalNext termNLU / NLG →

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