 It has a long history in the field of natural language processing (NLP), but recently it has gained significant attention thanks to the promising performance brought by deep learning models.
<clarity>  It has a long history in the field of natural language processing (NLP), but recently it has gained significant attention thanks to the promising performance brought by deep learning models.
 It has a long history in the field of natural language processing (NLP), but recently it has gained significant attention thanks to the promising performance brought by deep neural models.