[W/K] :: natural language processing

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

  natural language processing
       
           (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)