A natural language processing method and apparatus are disclosed. A natural language processing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes extracting a phoneme string from a text corpus labeled with recognition information including at least one of one named entity (NE) or speech intention, generating a phoneme-based training data set by labeling the recognition information in the extracted phoneme string, and generating an artificial neural network-based learning model (LM) using the generated training data set. The natural language processing method of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a drone (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV), a robot, an AR (Augmented Reality) device, a VR (Virtual Reality) device, a device associated with 5G services, etc.
PHONEME-BASED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING