How Do Computers Understand Words?

Computers don’t really understand words like we do, but they can guess what a word means by looking at the letters and patterns. Think of it like playing a game where every word has a secret code, and the computer tries to figure out the code by seeing how the words are used around it.

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Examples

A computer sees the word 'cat' not as an animal but as numbers like 67, 97, and 116.
If you type 'I love pizza,' the computer might think it’s happy because it saw the words 'love' and 'pizza' together before.
Sometimes a computer gets confused if you say 'bat' when you mean the animal or the sports equipment.

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