Etymology

computational linguistics

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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

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