natural language

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natural language

noun
a language used as a native tongue by a group of speakers.

Origin:
1875–80

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natural language
 
n
1.  artificial language Compare formal language a language that has evolved naturally as a means of communication among people
2.  languages of this kind considered collectively

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Natural language is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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Computing Dictionary

natural language definition

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)

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Its ability to understand natural language makes it a valuable tool in many different applications.
It comes from two directions: cognitive linguistics and natural language processing.
Already software is being programmed to tell via natural language whether comments are positive or negative.
It is not, however, a matter of the problem being cast in natural language.
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