Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

computational linguistics

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables: com-pu-ta-tion-al lin-guis-tics
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

7

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does computational linguistics mean?: 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.
Where does computational linguistics come from?: Coined by American linguist and computer scientist David Hays in the 1960s.

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