computational linguistics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

computational linguistics

Etymology

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

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