taalprocessing
Taalprocessing refers to computational methods for analyzing, understanding, and generating human language with computers. It encompasses processing of both written text and spoken language, and covers tasks such as information extraction, language understanding, translation, and language generation. In Dutch usage, the term is closely related to taalverwerking and to the broader field of natural language processing (NLP).
Historically, taalprocessing evolved from rule-based and symbolic systems to statistical methods in the 1990s, and to
Common tasks and techniques include text preprocessing (tokenization, normalization, stemming or lemmatization); syntactic parsing and dependency
Applications span search engines, virtual assistants, translation services, content moderation, customer support automation, and academic research.
Challenges include handling ambiguity, context, and longitudinal dependencies; bias, safety, and explainability; data privacy; and the