computational linguistics

The science of the structure of human language as applied to the computer. The terms "computational linguistics" and "natural language processing" are often assumed to be synonymous; however, the former refers more to the science, and the latter more to its actual use in the field. See natural language query and voice recognition.

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the ALEAR project--www.alear.eu), which will certainly spark future collaborations between typologists and computational linguists.

Analogy adapts to the structure of the world: author's reply to 'analogy is an implicit universal semantic map' by Michael Cysouw (2010b)

Utrecht) and The MITRE Corporation (Mark Maybury), the workshop brought together a group of 50 computational linguists, Al researchers, and computer scientists from North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South Africa working in a range of areas (for example, speech and language processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language technology and their application to knowledge management and to work toward a road map for the human language technologies for the next decade.

Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management. (Workshop Reports)

interest not only to computational linguists, but also to translators,

Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research -- (From the series Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics, No 22)

Some computational linguists have shown that translations require knowledge about the real world, and the meaning conveyed by a word often is encoded implicitly in the context.

Universal translater still years away

Computational linguistics is considered one of the most commercially viable branches of linguistics, with major technology companies such as Apple, Facebook, Intel, and Microsoft all employing computational linguists.

Montclair State University holds 24-hour coding marathon

Most computational linguists are involved with natural language processing, or just use computers to store large bulks of data or perform tedious and uncreative tasks, he says, but there are a few creative linguistic programs available.

Machine-aided linguistic discovery; an introduction and some examples