natural language processing

noun

variants or less commonly Natural Language Processing or natural-language processing or Natural-Language Processing

: the capability of a system with artificial intelligence (see artificial intelligence sense 1) to understand and respond effectively to natural language

It is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot technology that uses natural language processing to have human-like conversations, such that you can ask it a question and it will give you an answer.

—Maria Francis

Perhaps the most fundamental technique underlying this is natural-language processing, or the ability to respond to a question that is phrased the way you would phrase it to another person.

—Michael J. Miller

Natural language processing models, which are a specific type of AI, can analyze speech and text and then generate summaries that capture the essence of the original content.

—Tyler Markley

called also NLP

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above