On Tuesday, December 20, 2016, Linde, a German supplier of industrial-gas products, announced that it was entering into a "merger of equals" with US competitor Praxair in a deal valued at $35 billion.

It wasn’t too long ago that talking to a computer and having it not only understand, but speak back, was confined to the realm of science fiction, like that of the shipboard computers of Star Trek.

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Natural language processing, or NLP for short, is best described as “AI for speech and text.” The magic behind voice commands, speech and text translation, sentiment analysis, text summarization, and ...

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In the ever-evolving landscape of finance, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has emerged as a game-changer. This innovative technology, which enables computers to understand and interpret human ...

The field of natural language processing (NLP), which is expanding quickly, is concerned with how computers and human language interact. It entails giving computers the ability to comprehend, ...