05 · AI & Search Infrastructure

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

The field concerned with machines understanding human language.

Technical Term

Full explanation

Natural Language Processing, or NLP, is the field of AI concerned with how machines understand, interpret, and generate human language.

Why this matters

It is the older discipline underneath today's systems, and it is where entity recognition and semantic understanding come from.

Where this sits

Natural Language Processing (NLP) belongs to AI & Search Infrastructure, one of the seven layers of the Aingworth Glossary. The technical vocabulary behind the interfaces. Useful for understanding how the systems work, without becoming the center of the conversation.

Related terms

Entity Recognition Identifying and classifying real-world things within text. Semantic Search Search that interprets meaning rather than matching keywords. Machine Learning Building systems that learn patterns from data rather than rules.
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