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Ontology: A formal, explicit specification of how to represent the objects, concepts, and other entities in a particular system, as well as the relationships between them Natural-language processing ...

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Natural language processing (NLP) denotes the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to manipulate written or spoken languages. Like the air we breathe, NLP is so pervasive today that we hardly notice it ...