# What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)? | Yungle glossary

> NLP is the branch of AI that lets computers understand, interpret, and generate human language.

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# Natural Language Processing

In plain words

Natural language processing (NLP) is the field of AI focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. It's the underlying technology search engines and AI assistants use to interpret both search queries and website content, making it foundational to how AEO and GEO work.

Example

A search engine understands that “cheap website for a startup” and “affordable startup site” mean the same thing because of NLP.

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-   Glossary

    ## Large Language Model

    An LLM is the type of AI model, like GPT or Gemini, that powers modern AI search and chat answers.

    [See term](https://yungle.ai/glossary/large-language-model-llm)
-   Glossary

    ## Hreflang

    Hreflang is an HTML tag that tells search engines which language and region a page targets.

    [See term](https://yungle.ai/glossary/hreflang)
-   FAQ

    ## How Do I Optimize My Website for Search Engines?

    Start with clean technical SEO — fast load times, proper heading structure, mobile responsiveness — then build content around what your actual customers are searching for. Most sites over-invest in keywords and under-invest in structure. Google needs to crawl and understand your site before content quality even matters. Fix the technical foundation first, then focus content on answering real customer questions clearly.

    [See answer](https://yungle.ai/resources?type=faq#how-do-i-optimize-my-website-for-search-engines)
-   FAQ

    ## What Can Custom AI Agents Actually Do for My Business?

    Custom AI agents can qualify inbound leads, answer detailed customer questions using your actual documentation, draft first-pass responses to routine requests, and trigger multi-step workflows across your CRM and other tools without a human starting each one. What they can't yet reliably do is handle every edge case unsupervised — the best implementations pair automation with a clear human handoff for anything ambiguous or high-stakes. The realistic win is removing repetitive work, not replacing judgment entirely.

    [See answer](https://yungle.ai/resources?type=faq#what-can-custom-ai-agents-actually-do-for-my-business)

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