Computational Linguistics is a subfield of Linguistics in which logical modelling of natural language from an computational perspective is central. This modelling is not limited to a particular field of linguistics.
It is a very interdisciplinary field: linguists, computer scientists, AI-experts, cognitive psychologers and logicians, amongst others, are involved in it.
Some of the research areas that are studied by computational linguistics include:
- Computer aided Corpus linguistics
- Design of parsers for natural languages
- Design of taggers like POS-taggers (part-of-speech taggers)
- Definition of specialized logics like resource logics for NLP
- Research in the relation between formal and natural languages in general
- Machine Translation, e.g. by a translating computer
The Association for Computational Linguistics definition is:
- Computational linguistics is the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. Computational linguists are interested in providing computational models of various kinds of linguistic phenomena.
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