computational linguistics

English

Etymology

Coined by American linguist and computer scientist David Hays in the 1960s.

Pronunciation

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Noun

computational linguistics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics, computer science) An interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.
   • 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §7.1

     Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to start learning about one of the most useful of these: definite clause grammars, or DCGs as they are usually called.

Translations

interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective

• Arabic: لِسَانِيَّات حَاسُوبِيَّة (lisāniyyāt ḥāsūbiyya)
• Catalan: lingüística computacional f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 計算語言學 / 计算语言学 (gai³ syun³ jyu⁵ jin⁴ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 計算語言學 / 计算语言学 (zh) (jìsuàn yǔyánxué)

• Dutch: computationele taalkunde f
• Finnish: tietokonelingvistiikka
• French: linguistique informatique
• German: Computerlinguistik (de) f
• Hebrew: בלשנות חישובית (he) (balshanút khishuvít)
• Hungarian: számítógépes nyelvészet (hu)
• Irish: ríomhtheangeolaíocht f
• Italian: linguistica computazionale (it)
• Japanese: 計算言語学 (けいさんげんごがく, keisan gengogaku)
• Persian: زبان‌شناسی محاسباتی
• Polish: lingwistyka komputerowa
• Portuguese: linguística computacional (pt) f
• Russian: компьютерная лингви́стика (ru) (kompʹjuternaja lingvístika), вычислительная лингви́стика (vyčislitelʹnaja lingvístika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рачунарска лингвистика f, рачунално језикословље n

  Roman: računarska lingvisitka f, računalno jezikoslovlje n

• Spanish: lingüística computacional
• Swedish: datalingvistik c