natural language

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natural language - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

natural language - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  natural language
  
     <application> 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.
  
     An on-line demonstration (http://sakharov.ai.mit.edu/Start).
  
     New York U (http://nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/ling.html)
     .
  
     (1995-04-24)