information processing

Definitions of information processing
  1. noun
    the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
    synonyms: IP, informatics, information science
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    types:
    NLP, human language technology, natural language processing
    the branch of information science that deals with natural language information
    cybernetics
    (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems)
    type of:
    science, scientific discipline
    a particular branch of scientific knowledge
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