Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

natural language processing

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English

Syllables: nat-u-ral lan-guage pro-cess-ing
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, especially computational analysis and processing of large amounts of natural language data.

Uncountable

Etymology

From natural language + processing.

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

NLP human language technology

Questions

What does natural language processing mean?: A field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, especially computational analysis and processing of large amounts of natural language data.
Where does natural language processing come from?: From natural language + processing.

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