Natural-Language Understanding - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article0.00998d930354.png) ## Metadata - Author: **en.wikipedia.org** - Full Title: Natural-Language Understanding - Wikipedia - Category: #articles - Tags: #ai - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_understanding ## Highlights - Natural-language understanding (NLU) or natural-language interpretation (NLI)[1] is a subtopic of natural-language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension. Natural-language understanding is considered an AI-hard problem.[2] There is considerable commercial interest in the field because of its application to automated reasoning,[3] machine translation,[4] question answering,[5] news-gathering, text categorization, voice-activation, archiving, and large-scale content analysis.