natural language processing

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natural language processing definition

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)

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Natural language processing is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
WordNet
natural language processing

noun
the branch of information science that deals with natural language information 
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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