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NLP (Natural Language Processing)

The branch of AI dedicated to understanding and generating human language.

Detailed explanation

NLP covers tokenization, parsing, entity extraction, sentiment, translation, summarization and text generation. LLMs have unified most of these tasks inside a single general-purpose model.

Examples

Sentiment detection on customer reviews
Machine translation
Named entity recognition
Article summarization

Frequently asked questions

Is NLP replaced by LLMs?

No: LLMs are the new wave of NLP, but specialized models remain useful for cost, latency and accuracy.

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Last updated: 7/15/2026

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