natural languagenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌnætʃ.ər.əl ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us/ˌnætʃ.ɚ.əl ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/specializedlanguage that has developed in the usual way as a method of communicating between people, rather than language that has been created, for example for computers:
Computers are increasingly being used for natural language processing.
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