# natural

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"Natural" is a general natural language facility for nodejs. It offers a broad range of functionalities for natural language processing. Documentation can be found [here on GitHub Pages](https://naturalnode.github.io/natural/).


## Open source licenses

### Natural: MIT License

Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Chris Umbel, Rob Ellis, Russell Mull, Hugo W.L. ter Doest

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### Porter stemmer German: BSD License

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