Area of computer science focused on machine understanding, manipulation, translation, generation, etc of human language. One of the holy grails of AI.
gzip is actually pretty good at text classification1
Zhiying Jiang et al., “‘Low-Resource’ Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors,” in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 (Toronto, Canada: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023), 6810–28, https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426.