Natural language expressions of algorithms tend to be verbose and ambiguous, and are rarely used for complex or technical algorithms.

In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper " Natural Language & Natural Selection " which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.

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Natural languages are spoken or signed, but any language can be encoded into secondary media using auditory, visual or tactile stimuli, for example in graphic writing, braille, or whistling.

Natural language is distinguished from constructed languages and formal languages such as computer-programming languages or the " languages " used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic.

Natural language manifests itself in modalities other than speech.

* Natural language processing ( NLP )

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Natural language processing ( NLP ) is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human ( natural ) languages.

* Natural language generation: Convert information from computer databases into readable human language.

* Natural language understanding: Convert chunks of text into more formal representations such as first-order logic structures that are easier for computer programs to manipulate.

Natural language understanding involves the identification of the intended semantic from the multiple possible semantics which can be derived from a natural language expression which usually takes the form of organized notations of natural languages concepts.

* Natural language search

* Natural language programming

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Natural language is often used to specify the execution semantics of languages commonly used in practice.

Natural language processors have been proposed as a way to eliminate the need for a specialized language for programming.

Thanks to being a scripting language with module architecture, syntax simplicity and rich text processing tools, Python is often used for Natural language processing tasks.

As he states in the preface, he saw the book as a preamble to his other philosophical and theological books ; in fact, he suggests that Natural Theology should be read first, so as to build a systematic understanding of his arguments.

To gain a better understanding of the history of the planet the studio received guidance from Roy Chapman Andrews, the director of the American Museum of Natural History, English biologist Julian Huxley, paleontologist Barnum Brown, and astronomer Edwin Hubble.

Natural language understanding is a subtopic of natural language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension.

He was responsible for the design and implementation of key parts of the Cyc system, including the CycL knowledge representation language, the upper ontological layers of the Cyc Knowledge Base and some parts of the original Cyc Natural Language understanding system.

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* Natural language understanding

Natural ecosystems provide a metaphor for understanding how different parts of industrial systems interact with one another, in an " ecosystem " based on resources and infrastructural capital rather than on natural capital.

Conducted with assistance from the United States Geological Survey and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, this study attempts to arrive at a better understanding of the geology and hydrology of the Platte River basin from the Colorado and Wyoming borders to Columbus, including the Loup basin.

It allows an understanding of methods used in plant and animal breeding, and of micro-evolution ( eg Natural Selection ).

In 1957 Lady Bullough had sold the whole island, save for the Mausoleum, but including the castle and its contents, to the Nature Conservancy Council ( now Scottish Natural Heritage ) for the " knock-down price of £ 23, 000 " on the understanding that it would be used as a National Nature Reserve.

Briance's advertisement announced " A Natural Childbirth Association is to be formed for the promotion and better understanding of the Dick-Read system.

Established in 1980, the Gold Medal for Distinction in Natural History Art is awarded to people whose artistic endeavors and life's work have contributed to our understanding and appreciation of living things.

Natural theology had earlier expected that scientific findings based on empirical evidence would help religious understanding.

" The functions of the Florida Museum of Natural History, located at the University of Florida, are to make scientific investigations toward the sustained development of natural resources and a greater appreciation of human cultural heritage, including, but not limited to, biological surveys, ecological studies, environmental impact assessments, in-depth archaeological research, and ethnological analyzes, and to collect and maintain a depository of biological, archaeological, and ethnographic specimens and materials in sufficient numbers and quantities to provide within the state and region a base for research on the variety, evolution, and conservation of wild species ; the composition, distribution, importance, and functioning of natural ecosystems ; and the distribution of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites and an understanding of the aboriginal and early European cultures that occupied them.

In pursuit of better understanding of hydrocarbon, Julian wrote a book called High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis about a natural gas crisis in North America and other industrialized nations.

* Natural language understanding

Natural deposits terminology also sometimes uses the word bitumen, such as at the La Brea Tar Pits.

Natural adhesives are made from organic sources such as vegetable matter, starch ( dextrin ), natural resins or from animals e. g. casein or animal glue.

* Expression of viral proteins coupled to MHC proteins on the surface of the infected cell, allowing recognition by cells of the immune system ( such as Natural Killer and cytotoxic T cells ) that then induce the infected cell to undergo apoptosis.

* Natural forces alone ( such as solar and volcanic activity ) cannot explain the observed warming.

Natural instruments are still played for period performances and some ceremonial functions, and are occasionally found in more modern scores, such as those by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, or tornadoes, may strike the building where the computer is located.

Natural historians, such as Humbolt, James Hutton and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( among others ) laid the foundations of the modern ecological sciences.

Groups such as the Sierra Club shifted focus from local issues to becoming a lobby in Washington and new groups, for example, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense, arose to influence politics as well.

# Sparse trees and parkland – Natural forests in which the tree canopy cover is between 10 – 30 %, such as in the steppe regions of the world.

# Sparse trees and parkland – Natural forests in which the tree canopy cover is between 10 – 30 %, such as in the savannah regions of the world.

Much more forest land – about 40 percent of the total forest land base – is subject to varying degrees of protection through processes such as integrated land use planning or defined management areas such as certified forests ( Natural Resources Canada ).

Natural oil seeps such as this in the McKittrick area of California were used by the native Americans and later mined by settlers.

The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval Natural law tradition that became prominent during the Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and featured prominently in the political discourse of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder ( Natural History, 3. 5 ) and Varro ( cited by Pliny ), speculated that the name Lusitania was of Roman origin, as when Pliny says lusum enim liberi patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse lusitaniae et pana praefectum eius universae: that Lusitania takes its name from the lusus associated with Bacchus and the lyssa of his Bacchantes, and that Pan is its governor.

Natural phenomena ( such as rain ) were seen as the physical manifestation of this spiritual contention.

Museums, such as the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, have popular collections of mineral specimens on permanent display.

Some Natural resources can be found everywhere such as sunlight and air, when this is so the resource is known as an ubiquitous ( existing or being everywhere ) resource.

Some contemporary Catholic theologians, such as John Wijngaards, dispute the Magisterium's interpretation of Natural Law as applied to specific points of sexual ethics, such as in the areas of contraceptives and homosexual unions.

** Natural rights theories, such that of John Locke or Robert Nozick, which hold that human beings have absolute, natural rights.