2 definitions
for natural language processing
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
natural language processing
n : the branch of information science that deals with natural
language information [syn: NLP, human language
technology]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
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)