Understanding of Natural Language

Question: Discuss about the Understanding of Natural Language. Answer: Introduction: During analysis it has been found that there is a vast difference between the formal programming language and natural language (Dzikovska et al. 2014). Programming language is also a natural language but includes the concept of pragmatics, semantics and syntax. A digital machine does not understand the instruction provided by a human, in order to convert a formal language into a machine readable code Boolean algebra and computer programming language is used. When, a user is just starting out with programming, on JVM or other platforms the problems can easily run (Ince, Hatton and Graham-Cumming 2012). The person who is not aware of the computer coding will face problems as it is different from natural language. In programming language a single word means a keyword and that cannot be used in different places but in natural language there are many words which means based on situation and culture (Nivre 2015). For example, a single word leave can be expressed in two different ways due to different situation. She loves to play on her school leaves. Again they do not want their mother to leave them alone. Based on the situation and culture the two sentences means different. Do you know what time it is sentence has different meaning on different situation. It either is a question that somebody can ask someone to know what the time is. On the other hand, it can be used to express the anger such as look at the watch; do you know what time it is? There are many phrases that look similar but possess different meaning: You do not want to do that, am I right You do not want to do that!! Tell me about this expressing in such a way where the speaker already knows about the thing or it may be used as simply tell me about this please, where somebody is eager to knows about something. Two other phrases Do you have the time, it either be a direct question or it may be expressed in terms of anger, like Do you have time, to take me to the clinic? Two other sentences such as How did you find this job? it is a direct question. Whereas, How did you find this! it is an exclamation like how did you find this as was searching for this too long. References Dzikovska, M., Steinhauser, N., Farrow, E., Moore, J. and Campbell, G., 2014. BEETLE II: Deep natural language understanding and automatic feedback generation for intelligent tutoring in basic electricity and electronics.International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education,24(3), pp.284-332. Ince, D.C., Hatton, L. and Graham-Cumming, J., 2012. The case for open computer programs.Nature,482(7386), pp.485-488. Nivre, J., 2015, April. Towards a universal grammar for natural language processing. InInternational Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics(pp. 3-16). Springer International Publishing.