Language technology
Encyclopedia
Language technology is often called human language technology (HLT) or natural language processing
(NLP) and consists of computational linguistics
(or CL) and speech technology
as its core but includes also many application oriented aspects of them. Language technology is closely connected to computer science
and general linguistics
.
Natural language processing
Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
(NLP) and consists of computational linguistics
Computational linguistics
Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....
(or CL) and speech technology
Speech technology
Speech technology relates to the technologies designed to duplicate and respond to the human voice. They have many uses, including to aid the voice-disabled, the hearing-disabled, the blind, and to communicate with computers without a keyboard, to market goods or services by telephone and to...
as its core but includes also many application oriented aspects of them. Language technology is closely connected to computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and general linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
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