US PATENT SUBCLASS 704 / 9
.~ Natural language


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704 /   HD   DATA PROCESSING: SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING, LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGE TRANSLATION, AND AUDIO COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSION

1  DF  LINGUISTICS {4}
9.~ Natural language


DEFINITION

Classification: 704/9

Natural language:

(under subclass 1) Subject matter includes a means for applying grammatical rules or other analyses (e.g., morphemic, syntax, semantic, etc.) to define the true meaning of a sentence or phrase.

(1) Note. When words are undefined in the dictionary of a natural language, the grammatical rules or other analyses are applied in order to determine the true meaning of a sentence or a phrase.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

707, Data Processing: Database and File Management, Data Structures, and Document Processing,

1+, for nominal natural language processing used in database search and retrieval.