Natural language processing (or NLP for short) refers to technology that allows computers to understand human language. NLP is what helps computers read, edit and summarize text – as well as enabling ...

It wasn’t too long ago that talking to a computer and having it not only understand, but speak back, was confined to the realm of science fiction, like that of the shipboard computers of Star Trek.

Teaching computers to make sense of human language has long been a goal of computer scientists. The natural language that people use when speaking to each other is complex and deeply dependent upon ...