CHAPTER 10

Trend 6—Natural Language Processing

Introduction

What Is Natural Language Processing?

Natural language processing (NLP) is a subset of artificial intelligence that is focused on programming computers so they can (a) understand the human language from a variety of inputs such as e-mails, instant messaging, written communications, and verbal which can then be processed by other systems as well as (b) producing natural language outputs again across various sources such as e-mails, written communication and verbal.

The benefits of NLP are widespread, namely:

It allows firms to process a large amount of activity (such as customer queries or instructions) very quickly or even instantly without the need for having teams of people to assess ...

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