Definition of Computational linguistics

1. Noun. The use of computers for linguistic research and applications.

Specialized synonyms: Machine Translation, Mt
Generic synonyms: Linguistics

Definition of Computational linguistics

1. Noun. (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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Computational Linguistics

computability
computability logic
computability theory
computable
computable function
computably
computation
computation history
computation tree logic
computational
computational biology
computational chemistry
computational design
computational intelligence
computational linguist
computational linguistics (current term)
computational model
computational models
computationally
computationally secure
computations
computative
compute
computed
computed-tomography
computed axial tomography
computed axial tomography scans
computed perimetry
computed radiography
computed tomography

Literary usage of Computational linguistics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1993)
"CMU-LCL- 91-2, Laboratory for computational linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991, 12pp. Evans, David A., Monarch, Ira A., Lefferts, ..."

2. Final Evaluation Of The Results Of Eurotra: A Specific Programme Concerning ...by DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"At this time none of the four major universities in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium had a programme in computational linguistics (CL) although they all ..."

3. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1995)
"computational linguistics, 12(3), pp. 205-215. Grishman, Ralph and Tomek Strzalkowski. 1991. "Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. ..."

4. Text Retrieval Conference, 4th edited by D. K. Harman (1998)
"[15] Lauri Karttunen. Constructing lexical transducers. In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on computational linguistics, COLING'94, Kyoto, Japan, ..."

5. Successful Response Starts With a Map: Improving Geospatial Support for by National Research Council (U.S.), National Academies Press (U.S. (2007)
"... (computational linguistics for Metadata Building) project, which links text and image collections. Prior to arriving at Columbia, Dr. Klavans spent ..."

6. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 by National Academy of Engineering, Nae (2006)
"Montreal: Association for computational linguistics. Vargha-Khadem, F., KE Watkins, CJ Price, J. Ashburner, KJ Alcock, A. Connelly, ..."

7. Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing And Biology by John C. Wooley, Herbert Lin (2005)
"He has served on the editorial board of computational linguistics and the Journal for Artificial Intelligence Research. Dr. Brill received his Ph.D. in ..."

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