by Steve Bauer

When introducing NLP to beginning students, I always find it important to distinguish between models that belong in the NLP field and models that NLP practicioners have coded for other fields. In my article Modeling: The Core Discipline of NLP, I touched upon this issue quickly. In this article, we've delve a bit deeper into it.

The realm of NLP as I see it revolves around:

1. a series of models that facilitate modeling, and 2. a series of models that are the product of the modeling process.

Let's take a look at each individually.

A series of models that facilitate modeling

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