Natural Language Processing

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)