natural language processing

2 definitions found

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

  natural language processing
      n 1: the branch of information science that deals with natural
           language information [syn: natural language processing,
           NLP, human language technology]

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

  natural language processing
  
     <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)