Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Field of computer science concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages. Natural language generation systems convert information from computer databases into readable human language while natural language understanding systems convert samples of human language into more formal representations that are easier for computer programs to manipulate.

Instead of using Boolean logic, the user can simply type in a question as a query. The simplest processing just removes stop words and uses statistical approaches. The process of using linguistic analysis to infer meaning from human-written text that could not be extracted using the individual word meanings.