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# Natural language processing
{doctitle} (NLP) refers to a computer's ability to understand the structure and meaning of human language.
[Relevance Generative Answering (RGA)](https://docs.coveo.com/en/nbtb6010/) leverages NLP to extract the meaning in user queries to generate relevant answers.