natural language processing(n = noun.cognition) human language technology, nlp - the branch of information science that deals with natural language information;
is a kind of informatics, information processing, information science, ip

administrative data processing, afrasian language, afroasiatic language, algebraic language, algonquian language, algorithmic language, altaic language, american language, american sign language, american-indian language, amerindian language, anatolian language, application-oriented language, arabic language, armenian language, artificial language, assembly language, athapaskan language, austro-asiatic language, austronesian language, authoring language, automatic data processing, automatic data processing system, background processing, bad language, baltic language, balto-slavic language, bantoid language, batch processing, blue language, body language, business data processing, caddoan language, canaanitic language, caribbean language, caucasian language, celtic language, central processing unit, chadic language, chukchi language, command language, command of language, command processing overhead, command processing overhead time, computer language, computer-oriented language, contour language, dardic language, data processing, dead language, dirty language, distributed data processing, dravidian language, east germanic language, electronic data processing, english language, eskimo-aleut language, ethiopian language, first language, foreground processing, foul language, german language, germanic language, hamitic language, hellenic language, high-level language, higher programming language, hmong language, human language technology, hypertext mark-up language, hypertext markup language, indigenous language, indo-european language, indo-iranian language, information processing, information processing system, integrated data processing, iranian language, iroquoian language, italic language, job control language, job-control language, kadai language, khoisan language, language, language area, language barrier, language learning, language lesson, language requirement, language school, language system, language teaching, language unit, language zone, latinian language, list processing, list-processing language, machine language, machine-oriented language, maracan language, markup language, maternal language, mayan language, mineral processing, mongolic language, multidimensional language, muskhogean language, muskogean language, native language, natural, natural ability, natural action, natural childbirth, natural covering, natural depression, natural elevation, natural enclosure, natural endowment, natural event, natural family, natural family planning, natural fiber, natural fibre, natural gas, natural glass, natural history, natural immunity, natural language, natural language processing application, natural language processor, natural law, natural logarithm, natural number, natural object, natural order, natural phenomenon, natural philosophy, natural process, natural product, natural product chemistry, natural resin, natural resource, natural resources, natural right, natural rubber, natural science, natural scientist, natural selection, natural shape, natural spring, natural state, natural steel, natural theology, natural virtue, natural world, niger-kordofanian language, nilo-saharan language, nilotic language, north germanic language, object language, object-oriented programing language, object-oriented programming language, one-dimensional language, ore processing, papuan language, parallel processing, priority processing, problem-oriented language, processing, processing time, programing language, programming language, quechuan language, query language, real-time processing, register language, remote-access data processing, romance language, royal society of london for improving natural know, sanskritic language, scandinavian language, sea language, search language, secret language, serial processing, shoshonean language, shoshonian language, sign language, sinitic language, sino-tibetan language, siouan language, slavic language, slavonic language, source language, spoken language, standard generalized markup language, stratified language, strong language, syntax language, tanoan language, target language, tibeto-burman language, tonal language, tone language, tungusic language, tupi-guarani language, turkic language, unstratified language, uralic language, uto-aztecan language, vulgar language, wakashan language, west germanic language, word processing, word processing system, written language