Meanings
nouncomputational linguistics (uncountable)
- uncountablecomputerAn 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.
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Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to start learning about one of the most useful of these: definite clause grammars, or DCGs as they are usually called.
2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §7.1
Origin
Coined by American linguist and computer scientist David Hays in the 1960s.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic لِسَانِيَّات حَاسُوبِيَّة
- لِسَانِيَّات حَاسُوبِيَّة (lisāniyyāt ḥāsūbiyya)interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Catalan lingüística computacional
- lingüística computacionalinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Chinese Cantonese 計算語言學 /计算语言学
- 計算語言學 /计算语言学 (gai³ syun³ jyu⁵ jin⁴ hok⁶)interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Chinese Mandarin 計算語言學 /计算语言学
- 計算語言學 /计算语言学 (jìsuàn yǔyánxué)interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Dutch computationele taalkunde
- computationele taalkundeinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Finnish tietokonelingvistiikka
- tietokonelingvistiikkainterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
French linguistique informatique
- linguistique informatiqueinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
German Computerlinguistik
- Computerlinguistikinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Hebrew בלשנות חישובית
- בלשנות חישובית (balshanút khishuvít)interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Hungarian számítógépes nyelvészet
- számítógépes nyelvészetinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Irish ríomhtheangeolaíocht
- ríomhtheangeolaíochtinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Italian linguistica computazionale
- linguistica computazionaleinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Japanese 計算言語学
- 計算言語学 (keisan gengogaku)interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Persian زبانشناسی محاسباتی
- زبانشناسی محاسباتیinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Polish lingwistyka komputerowa, językoznawstwo komputerowe
- lingwistyka komputerowainterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
- językoznawstwo komputeroweinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Portuguese linguística computacional
- linguística computacionalinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Russian компьютерная лингви́стика, вычислительная лингви́стика
- компьютерная лингви́стика (kompʹjuternaja lingvístika)interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
- вычислительная лингви́стика (vyčislitelʹnaja lingvístika)interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Spanish lingüística computacional
- lingüística computacionalinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
Swedish datalingvistik
- datalingvistikinterdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective
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APA
computational linguistics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/computational%20linguistics
MLA
“computational linguistics.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/computational%20linguistics. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “computational linguistics,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/computational%20linguistics.
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