Natural Language Processing and Language Learning

As a relatively young field of research and development that began with work on crypt-analysis and machine translation around 50 years ago, natural language processing (NLP) is concerned with the automated processing of human language. Keywords: CALL; computational linguistics; corpora; ICALL; natural language processing

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