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Natural Language Processing

A branch of AI focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence that deals with the interaction between computers and human language. NLP encompasses a broad range of tasks: tokenization (breaking text into words), part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, machine translation, text summarization, question answering, and semantic parsing (including text-to-SQL). Modern NLP is dominated by transformer-based models that learn language patterns from large corpora. For database applications, NLP enables users to express data needs in everyday language, which the system then interprets to formulate precise database queries.

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