Natural language processing: What is a pipeline?
In the context of the NLP area, a pipeline refers to a fixed sequence of processes, e.g. first the text is extracted from a document, then the presentation in a specific document model is calculated from the text, then a classification model is applied to this presentation. Such sequences occur in many places in a typical NLP application. That is why there are pipelining tools that standardize and simplify the process of linking tasks into pipelines.
