Their understanding of natural language is somewhat limited, but they can answer basic queries.

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But we're on the verge of putting natural language understanding into many of these.

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Natural language is understanding the nuances of language, which allows the conversion of voice transcription into meaningful information.

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Dragon TV is a part of Nuance's portfolio of voice, touch and natural language understanding innovations that are defining a new generation of intelligent systems and personal assistant technologies, which also includes Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Dragon Dictate for Mac, Dragon Assistant for Intel-inspired Ultrabooks, Dragon Dictation, Dragon Go!

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Second, hospitals will invest in automation and natural language understanding (NLU) to make sense of large data sets so they can get insight it into the hands of decision-makers in a timely fashion.

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Just look at many of the projects in Microsoft Research, starting with natural language understanding.

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