Definition of Natural language processing

1. Noun. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.


Definition of Natural language processing

1. Noun. a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Natural language processing

1. Computer processing of a language with rules that reflect and describe current usage rather than prescribed usage. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Natural Language Processing

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natural gases
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natural immunity
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natural killer cell stimulating factor
natural killer cells
natural language
natural language processing (current term)
natural language processing application
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natural law
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Literary usage of Natural language processing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1993)
"natural language processing is used to (1) preprocess the documents in order to extract contents-carrying terms, (2) discover inter- term dependencies and ..."

2. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
""Information Retrieval and natural language processing." Position paper at the workshop on Future Directions in natural language processing in Information ..."

3. Unified Medical Language System: Current Bibliographies in Medicine, January by Catherine R. Selden, Betsy L. Humphreys (1997)
"Knowledge sources for natural language processing. Proc AMIA Fall Symp 1996:70-4. ABSTRACT: This paper aims at reviewing the problem of feeding Natural ..."

4. U. S. Industrial Outlook, 1994: Business Forecasts for 350 Industries (1994)
"Natural-language processing, another branch of AI, is a technology which understands ... Applications in natural-language processing have been developed for ..."

5. Text Retrieval Conference, 4th edited by D. K. Harman (1998)
"... Karman and Candela, 1989) augmented with various natural language processing components that assist the system in database processing (stemming, ..."

6. Final Evaluation Of The Results Of Eurotra: A Specific Programme Concerning by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"One legacy from the Final Phase is the ALEP system, a toolkit or software framework for natural language processing research. ..."

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