Natural language

As natural language is known in linguistics a spoken or behaved of people single language that has emerged from a historical, diachronic development. Planned languages ​​are therefore classified as non-natural languages ​​, since they do not result of autonomous historical developments. Natural languages ​​and planned languages ​​also use gestures, facial expressions and tone of voice or intonation of modulating the communication. Natural languages ​​are also distinguished from formal languages ​​- compared to these they exhibit structural and lexical vagueness and ambiguity on.

Computational Linguistics

In computational linguistics, the attribute refers to the ability of a natural language dialog system, utterances which consists of sentences, to process and to extract more information from a single sentence. A distinction is made between NLU (Natural Language Understanding, natural language understanding ') and IVR (Interactive Voice Response based on the recognition of single words or touch tones ( DTMF, see tone dialing ) is limited. See also Dialog Design.