natural language processing

n. NLP, subfield of artificial intelligence and linguistics that deals with generation of natural language, process of understanding and generating of natural human language by a computer

Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. It studies the problems of automated generation and understanding of natural human languages. Natural language generation systems convert information from computer databases into normal-sounding human language, and natural language understanding systems convert samples of human language into more formal representations that are easier for computer programs to manipulate.
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Noun
1. the branch of information science that deals with natural language information
(synonym) NLP, human language technology
(hypernym) information science, informatics, information processing, IP

<artificial intelligence> (NLP) Computer understanding, analysis, manipulation, and/or generation of natural language.
This can refer to anything from fairly simple string-manipulation tasks like stemming, or building concordances of natural language texts, to higher-level AI-like tasks like processing user queries in natural language.
(1997-09-12)