The correct answer is D. understanding and generation.
Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data.
NLP is divided into two subfields: understanding and generation.
- Understanding: This subfield deals with the interpretation of natural language text. It includes tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, parsing, and semantic role labeling.
- Generation: This subfield deals with the production of natural language text. It includes tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering.
The other options are incorrect because they do not accurately reflect the subfields of NLP.
- Symbolic and numeric: This option is incorrect because it does not accurately reflect the nature of NLP tasks. NLP tasks are typically not concerned with symbolic or numeric data.
- Time and motion: This option is incorrect because it does not accurately reflect the nature of NLP tasks. NLP tasks are typically not concerned with time or motion.
- Algorithmic and heuristic: This option is incorrect because it does not accurately reflect the nature of NLP tasks. NLP tasks are typically not concerned with algorithms or heuristics.