Natural language processing uses artificial intelligence to replicate human speech and text on computing devices. Written by eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent ...

Natural language processing is a branch of AI that enables computers to understand, process, and generate language just as people do — and its use in business is rapidly growing.

Historically, natural language processing was handled by rule-based systems, initially by writing rules for, e.g., grammars and stemming. Aside from the sheer amount of work it took to write those ...