Natural Language Processing

Journal: Science • • American Association for the Advancement of Science • ISSN: 0036-8075

Abstract

Natural language processing (NLP) is the study of mathematical and computational modeling of various aspects of language and the development of a wide range of systems. These include spoken language systems that integrate speech and natural language; cooperative interfaces to databases and knowledge bases that model aspects of human-human interaction; multilingual interfaces; machine translation; and message-understanding systems, among others. Research in NLP is highly interdisciplinary, involving concepts in computer science, linguistics, logic, and psychology. NLP has a special role in computer science because many aspects of the field deal with linguistic features of computation and NLP seeks to model language computationally.

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How to Cite this Article

Aravind K. Joshi (1991). "Natural Language Processing". Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.253.5025.1242