I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural…

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

— Ray Kurzweil

A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that…

— Terry Winograd

Things like chatbots, machine learning tools, natural language processing, or sentiment analysis are applications of artificial intelligence that may one day profoundly change how…

— Gillian Tans

Understanding of natural language is what sometimes is called 'AI complete,' meaning if you can really do that, you can probably solve artificial intelligence.

— Oren Etzioni

“once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome’.”

— John Humphrys

Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.

— Geoffrey Hinton

“Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's…

— Richard P. Feynman

Imagine if we can just talk to our computers and have it understand, 'Please schedule a meeting with Bob for next week.' Or if…

— Andrew Ng

Computers can see, and understand what people say via speech recognition.

— Jeff Dean

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.

— Paul Allen

The problem with natural language processing and the thing that really holds the technology back, is that when it crashes and burns, it's horrific.…

— Greg Zeschuk

“The difficulty in making sense of even simple speech is well appreciated by computer scientists who struggle to create machines that can respond to…

— Leonard Mlodinow

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned…

— Larry Wall

“An analogy to natural language illustrates the point. The letters A,C, and T convey very little meaning by themselves, but can be combined in…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.”

— Doris Bradbury