"computational linguistics" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-computational linguistics.ogg [US]
Etymology: Coined by American linguist and computer scientist David Hays in the 1960s. Etymology templates: {{coinage|en|David Hays|in=the 1960s|nat=American|nobycat=1|occ=linguist and computer scientist}} Coined by American linguist and computer scientist David Hays in the 1960s Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: computational linguistics Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computational linguistics, Computer science, Linguistics Translations (interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective): لِسَانِيَّات حَاسُوبِيَّة (lisāniyyāt ḥāsūbiyya) (Arabic), lingüística computacional [feminine] (Catalan), 計算語言學 (Chinese Cantonese), 计算语言学 (gai³ syun³ jyu⁵ jin⁴ hok⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 計算語言學 (Chinese Mandarin), 计算语言学 (jìsuàn yǔyánxué) (Chinese Mandarin), computationele taalkunde [feminine] (Dutch), tietokonelingvistiikka (Finnish), linguistique informatique (French), Computerlinguistik [feminine] (German), בלשנות חישובית (balshanút khishuvít) (Hebrew), számítógépes nyelvészet (Hungarian), ríomhtheangeolaíocht [feminine] (Irish), linguistica computazionale (Italian), 計算言語学 (keisan gengogaku) (alt: けいさんげんごがく) (Japanese), زبانشناسی محاسباتی (Persian), lingwistyka komputerowa (Polish), linguística computacional [feminine] (Portuguese), компьютерная лингви́стика (kompʹjuternaja lingvístika) (Russian), вычислительная лингви́стика (vyčislitelʹnaja lingvístika) (Russian), рачунарска лингвистика [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), рачунално језикословље [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), računarska lingvisitka [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), računalno jezikoslovlje [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), lingüística computacional (Spanish), datalingvistik [common-gender] (Swedish)

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        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "računarska lingvisitka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "računalno jezikoslovlje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective",
      "word": "lingüística computacional"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "datalingvistik"
    }
  ],
  "word": "computational linguistics"
}

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