TR317 Natural Language Processor ODA Component Requirements v1.0.0

Natural Language Processing software analyzes, understands, and generates human language, allowing for more intuitive human-computer interaction. In contrast to other reasoning engine applications, NLP focuses on processing and understanding natural language communication, rather than working with formal, rule-based logic. 

Natural Language Processing software components use algorithms and computational methods (models) to process unstructured human input (text or voice) to perform sentiment analysis, speech tagging, and named entity recognition. Standalone software components based on Natural Language Processing enable services like translation, comprehension, knowledge exploration, extracting insights (e.g., Intent) and natural language generation with use cases spanning chatbots, real-time translation agents, and expert support systems.

In this requirement document, Natural Language Processing requirements are elicited to enable scoping of ODA Components that provide NLP services.