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Natural language processing (NLP) is understanding and interpreting human languages, spoken or written, using machine processing. NLP is useful in a variety of applications including speech recognition, language translations, summarization, question responses, speech generation, and search applications. NLP is an area of research which has proven to be difficult to master. Deep learning techniques have started to solve some of the issues involved in natural language processing.

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Rebala, G., Ravi, A., Churiwala, S. (2019). Natural Language Processing. In: An Introduction to Machine Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15729-6_10

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