computational linguistics
noun
the study of the applications of computers in processing and analyzing language, as in automatic machine translation and text analysis.
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Nearby words
compurgation, compurgator, computation, computational complexity, computational fluid dynamics, computational linguistics, compute, computed tomography, computer, computer age, computer animation
Origin of computational linguistics
First recorded in 1960–65
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