language processing
Understanding spoken words
Language processing is the computational analysis and manipulation of human language—parsing text, extracting meaning, generating responses, translating between languages.
The term covers both how computers handle language natural language processing and how the human brain comprehends and produces speech.
In cognitive science, it refers to mental operations: Her language processing slowed after the stroke.
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- parsingGrammatical structure extraction
- part of speechGrammatical word category
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- translationConverting between languages
machine translation · machine learning · speech recognition · neurolinguistics · pragmatics · lost in translation · morphology · lexicon · tokenization · chatbots · phonology · deep learning · neural network · training data · memory · meaning · reasoning · patterns
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, cognition, remembering
- Neuropsychologycognition, memory test, cognitive test, executive function, working memory
- comprehensionreading comprehension, inference, meaning, word meaning, context clues
- cognitive sciencecognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive development, cognitive load, cognitive maps
- psycholinguisticsword recognition, tip of the tongue, tip-of-the-tongue, tip of tongue, priming
- Brain Traitsworking memory, attention span, executive function, cognitive flexibility, memory capacity
language processingvisual processing
How brains interpret images
spatial reasoning · sensory processing · image processing · mathematical reasoning · pattern recognition
language processingtranscription
Written version of speech
dictation · stenography · parroting · echoing
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