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Introduction of NLP and Information Retrieval Concepts. In this section, an overview is given of relevant concepts that are useful to un- derstand further chapters. Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a research field explores how com- puters can be used to understand and manipulate natural language, i.e. speech and written text in human language (as opposed to formal/constructed language such as programming languages) (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2005). It is a rather broad field on the intersection of linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence, and is used to process and analyse large amounts of text. It originates in the 1950s, and was originally quite separate from Information Retrieval (IR), but over time, NLP and text IR have converged to some extent (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2011).

Introduction of NLP and Information Retrieval Concepts. ‌ In this section, an overview is given of relevant concepts that are useful to un- derstand further chapters. Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a research field explores how com- puters can be used to understand and manipulate natural language, i.e. speech and written text in human language (as opposed to formal/constructed language such as programming languages) (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2005). It is a rather broad field on the intersection of linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence, and is used to process and analyse large amounts of text. It originates in the 1950s, and was originally quite separate from Information Retrieval (IR), but over time, NLP and text IR have converged to some extent (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 2011).