As of 2020, the overall size of natural language processing (NLP) market in China reached roughly ** billion yuan and was projected to grow at an average compound annual rate of ** percent over the observed period, amounting to over *** billion yuan in 2026. Natural language processing belongs to the artificial intelligence industry and describes the analysis and synthesis of human speech.
*Forecasts.
One yuan equals to approximately 0.15 U.S. dollars and 0.14 euros (as of August 2022).
Figures included the scale of final products and services delivered by the AI projects to downstream end users and excluded human-computer products, cloud-computing, data center, data center AI training or reasoning chips purchased by end-users for the planning and configuration of AI projects.
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