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The article presents the development of researches in natural languages' processing. It discusses beginnings of these studies, as well as changes in either the research methods, or their range and scope during last 60 years. The author describes two the most popular research methods: statistical analysis and generative grammars. He also evaluates briefly advantages and disadvantages of them both. Additionally, the article presents selected modern trends of NLP activities. Among the most popular current research trends in natural language processing, one can mention information retrieval or documents' grouping.