NLP is an acronym/abbreviation for the following:
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming Essentially, it is the empirical study of, and modelling of, human excellence, begun by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970s. It looks at precisely how we do what we do, and how highly successful individuals do what they do. The purpose is to enable portability and replication of those skills.
- nonlinear programming a type of Mathematical programming which attempts to optimize non-linear objective functions.
- natural language processing, which is an area of computational linguistics concerned with the processing of naturally occurring (human) language by computer.