| a language used as a native tongue by a group of speakers. |
| natural language n. A human written or spoken language as opposed to a computer language. |
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.
New York U.
(1995-04-24)