natural language processing

Noun

1.

natural language processing - the branch of information science that deals with natural language information Synonyms: human language technology, NLP

(artificial intelligence)

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.

human language technology, informatics, information processing, information science, IP, NLP