The challenge of natural language processing

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The challenge of natural language processing

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Jul 25, 2018

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TechStuff listener Nate wanted to know about natural language processing. How can computer scientists teach machines to understand human language and why is it so hard to do? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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