text processing

noun

1. the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer

Example Sentences

Still, another finding was that “negative” gossip, characterized through a Natural Language Text Processing analysis, was in fact 2.7 times more prevalent than positive gossip, though a significant portion of the messages were sentiment-neutral.

From Time

The text processing takes around five minutes per photo until it’s fully indexed, and this will be searchable across OneNote on PCs or Macs, phones, and tablets.

From The Verge

Computer scientists still have a lot of work to do to improve the accuracy of text processing, Giles says.

From Science Magazine

These radical simplifications reflect the utilitarian goals of Google’s effort: these models are meant to solve practical problems in speech, vision, and text processing — and, at the end of the day, make money for Google by improving the quality of its services and increasing its ad revenues.

From Forbes

As far back as the 1950s, Ulrich Steinhilper, an executive with one of IBM’s German subsidiaries, had coined the term Textverarbeitung—literally text processing—in an effort to position typewriter products on an equal footing with IBM’s mighty data processing division.

From Slate