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Home/Glossary/Natural Language Processing (NLP)
AI Glossary Term

What does “Natural Language Processing (NLP)” mean?

Definition

The branch of AI focused on understanding and generating human language.

Related terms

Named Entity Recognition (NER)
An NLP task that identifies entities such as people, places, dates, or organizations.
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
A hypothetical AI system that can perform most intellectual tasks at a human level across many domains.
AI Alignment
The work of making AI systems behave according to human intentions, values, and safety constraints.
AI Safety
A field focused on reducing harmful behavior, failures, and misuse risks in AI systems.
Annotation
Human-added labels or metadata used to train or evaluate machine learning models.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The broad field of building systems that perform tasks requiring pattern recognition, reasoning, language, or decision-making.

Learn more in our free guides

NLP BasicsEmergent Abilities of Large Language ModelsSycophancy in Language ModelsNaturalSpeech and Latent Diffusion TTS

See also

Neural NetworkMultimodal ModelNormalizationModel QuantizationOCR (Optical Character Recognition)Model DriftOpen-Source ModelModel Card
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