Natural language

The term natural language is used to distinguish languages spoken by humans for general-purpose communication from constructs such as computer-programming languages or the "languages" used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic.

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Language - Logic - Mathematical logic

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In the philosophy of language, the term ordinary language is sometimes used as synonymous with natural (as opposed to mathematical or logical) language. Natural language is also considered a field of weak artificial intelligence. The term has been adopted to describe computer input terms and language modeled after or based on natural human languages rather than the artificial syntax and terms of computer languages, particularly in the areas of search engines or search functions.

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Philosophy of language - Artificial intelligence - Search engines

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Additionally, the indigenous signed languages of the world merit inclusion as natural languages owing to extensive linguistic analysis in the latter 20th century confirming their unique and consistent grammar, syntax, rules and visual logic dramatically unlike the spoken languages of the nations or geographic regions in which they arose. American, French, and British Sign Languages are the best documented examples in the literature.

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