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  • abbreviation natural language processing

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  • initialism communication Initialism of neuro-linguistic programming.
  • initialism computing Initialism of natural language processing.
  • initialism mathematics Initialism of nonlinear programming.
  • initialism politics Initialism of National Labour Party.
  • initialism psychology Initialism of neuro-linguistic psychotherapy.

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Examples

  • NLP is planning to release 25 new titles in the first half of 2011.

    Patricia Benesh: Entrepreneur Publishers Are Hooked on the Vook Patricia Benesh 2010

  • The third technology relevant to taming the Big Data beast is natural language processing or NLP, which is a group of technologies that mine facts from unstructured data.

    Steve Hamby: Top Three Technologies to Tame the Big Data Beast Steve Hamby 2011

  • The NLP will be the fifth party Marais has been a member of since he began his political career in the apartheid-era House of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • That he preferred to lurk on the sidelines of celebrity says much about Bandler and his NLP, which is based on self-awareness and communication and flies in the face of traditional methods of psychotherapy.

    Daily Express News Feeds 2009

  • In the end, the ideology of the NLP was a mixed affair - reflecting the hybrid nature of the party membership's diffuse beliefs and politics.

    liberation 2009

  • In practical terms NLP is a methodology for modelling human behaviour.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • As shocking as it may seem to folks who regularly use rapid induction sets like the Elman or who use instant inductions or even those who use non-ritual trance systems such as NLP, 3D Mind, or the like, progressive relaxation is actually the standard form of hypnotic induction taught in many very pervasive hypnosis training programs.

    Of Hypnosis Training . . . and . . . . . . Progressive Relaxation . . . and . . .. . . how long does it take? 2005

  • As shocking as it may seem to folks who regularly use rapid induction sets like the Elman or who use instant inductions or even those who use non-ritual trance systems such as NLP, 3D Mind, or the like, progressive relaxation is actually the standard form of hypnotic induction taught in many very pervasive hypnosis training programs.

    Life of Brian: 2005

  • This is because NLPmodelling is not what most people call "NLP".

    Comments for How Did Batseon Conclude Shoddy Epistomology! 2010

  • The thing that was originally "NLP" was a project that attempted to model successful people, notice the patterns of language and behavior, and replicate them.

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  • natural language processing (NLP). NLP is a branch in the field of artificial intelligence that aims to make sense of everyday (thus natural) human languages. Numerous applications of NLP have been around for quite a while now, from text auto completion and chatbots to voice assistants and spot-on music recommendation.

    January 20, 2022