natural language
     n : a human written or spoken language used by a community;
         opposed to e.g. a computer language [syn: tongue] [ant:
          artificial language]

	

	natural language
     
         A language spoken or written by humans, as
        opposed to a language use to program or communicate with
        computers.  Natural language understanding is one of the
        hardest problems of artificial intelligence due to the
        complexity, irregularity and diversity of human language and
        the philosophical problems of meaning.
     
        See also Pleuk grammar development system, proof.
     
        An on-line demonstration (http://sakharov.ai.mit.edu/Start).
     
        New York U
        (http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/ling.html).
     
        (1995-04-24)