Papuan language

n : any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea

or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not

Malayo-Polynesian languages [syn: {Papuan}, {Papuan

language}]

natural language

A language spoken or written by humans, as

opposed to a language use to program or communicate with

computers. Natural language understanding is one of the

hardest problems of {artificial intelligence} due to the

complexity, irregularity and diversity of human language and

the philosophical problems of meaning.

See also {Pleuk grammar development system}, {proof}.

{An on-line demonstration (http://sakharov.ai.mit.edu/Start)}

{New York U

(http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/ling.html)}.

(1995-04-24)