Linguistics/Computational Linguistics

Computational linguistics is interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and logical modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.

Purposes

There are two major purposes of computational linguistics:

To help linguists study natural languages more easily
To make it possible for ordinary people to use natural language when using a computer

Computational linguists often use large bodies of digitized text or speech called corpora as a basis for teaching computer programs the proper use of a language, or to compare the use of a language in one context to its use in another context. This is also called corpus linguistics.

Some of the practical uses of computational linguistics include:

Speech recognition
Speech production
Machine translation
Improvements to data mining, including search engine design.

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