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Language is the method of communication and the carrier of human thoughts and knowledge. It fully expresses both human emotions and cognitions. Language implies a large amount of knowledge that mankind has continuously learned about the world in practice, and it is one of the important signs of human intelligence.

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Chinese Academy of Engineering. (2021). Global Trends. In: The Development of Natural Language Processing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1986-1_1

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