natural language

noun
1.
a language used as a native tongue by a group of speakers.
Origin
1875-80
Examples from the web for natural language
  • It comes from two directions: cognitive linguistics and natural language processing.
  • It is not, however, a matter of the problem being cast in natural language.
  • Already software is being programmed to tell via natural language whether comments are positive or negative.
  • Its ability to understand natural language makes it a valuable tool in many different applications.
British Dictionary definitions for natural language

natural language

noun
1.
a language that has evolved naturally as a means of communication among people Compare artificial language, formal language
2.
languages of this kind considered collectively
natural language in Technology
application
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 (https://sakharov.ai.mit.edu/Start).
New York U (https://nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/ling.html).
(1995-04-24)