NLP / NLU Glossary

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• CL
  Acronym for "Computational Linguistics". CL is a discipline between linguistics and computer science which is concerned with the computational aspects of the human language faculty.

  More about CL
  The CL Journal
  The Association for Computational Linguistics

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• MT
  Acronym for "Machine Translation". MT is a form of translation where a computer program analyses the text in one language - the "source text" - and then produces another, equivalent text in another language - the "target text" -without human intervention.

  Wikipedia Entry for MT

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• NLA
  Acronym for "Natural Language Analysis". NLA is the NLP subtask of analyzing natural language given in its original form mainly by parsing it.

• NLG
  Acronym for "Natural Language Generation". NLG is the NLP subtask of generating natural language from a machine representation system such as a knowledge base or a logical form.

  Wikipedia Entry for NLG

• NLP
  Acronym for "Natural Language Processing". NLP is a subfield of artificial intelligence and linguistics. It studies the problems inherent in the processing and manipulation of natural language.

  More about NLP
  Wikipedia Entry for NLP

• NLU
  Acronym for "Natural Language Understanding". NLU is devoted to making computers "understand" statements written in human languages.

  Wikipedia Entry for NLU