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Natural Language Understanding

A subtopic of natural language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension.

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) focuses specifically on the semantic meaning, intent, and sentiment of text. High-fidelity NLU is required for Agentic Workflows to accurately parse complex, highly nuanced human instructions and map them to deterministic API calls.

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