Natural Language Processing for Games Studies Research (original) (raw)

Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science and linguistics devoted to creating computer systems that use human (natural) language as input and/or output. We propose that NLP can also be used for game studies research. In this article we provide an overview of NLP and describe a few research possibilities that can be explored using its tools and techniques. We discuss these techniques by performing three different types of NLP analyses of a significant corpus of online videogame reviews. First, using ...