computational linguistics

American  

noun

1. the study of the applications of computers in processing and analyzing language, as in automatic machine translation and text analysis.

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Etymology

Origin of computational linguistics

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

"This work influences linguistics with quantitative perspectives, contributes to models of applied mathematics, and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration while emphasizing the need for more comprehensive data in computational linguistics," said Rosillo-Rodes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023

But “there’s no one place where you can go download the Internet,” says Emily M. Bender, a linguist who studies computational linguistics and language technology at the University of Washington.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

“People were not building systems for fluent dialogue. That was just too hard,” said Stuart Shieber, a Harvard computer scientist who specializes in computational linguistics, including the Turing test.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Back in 2016, Jamie Clark of Seattle was a software engineer who planned to take a year off of work to finish a master’s degree in computational linguistics.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2022

It has been in existence since the late 1980s, and has played a role in a number of important computational linguistics research projects.

From Multilingualism on the Web by Lebert, Marie