Natural Language Processing
Also known as: NLP, Computational Linguistics
A field of AI focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, generate, and meaningfully interact with human language in both text and speech forms.
Sources & References
Stanford University
Related Terms
Large Language Model
A type of AI model trained on vast amounts of text data that can understand, generate, and manipulate human language, typically based on the transformer architecture with billions of parameters.
Tokens
The basic units of text that language models process, typically representing words, subwords, or characters. Token counts determine context window usage and API costs.
Transformer
A neural network architecture based on self-attention mechanisms that processes input sequences in parallel, forming the foundation of virtually all modern large language models.