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[syn: natural language, tongue]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
natural language
n 1: a human written or spoken language used by a community;
opposed to e.g. a computer language [syn: natural
language, tongue] [ant: artificial language]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
natural language
A language spoken or written by humans, as
opposed to a language use to program or communicate with
computers.
Natural language understanding is one of the hardest problems
of artificial intelligence due to the complexity,
irregularity and diversity of human language and the
philosophical problems of meaning.
See also Pleuk grammar development system, proof, MIT
"Start" Project (http://start.csail.mit.edu/), New York U
(http://nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/ling.html).
(2011-01-30)