Computational Linguistics
Computational linguistics (CL) is a discipline between linguistics and computer science which is concerned with the computational aspects of the human language faculty.
- It belongs to the cognitive sciences and overlaps with the field of Artificial intelligence
- Computational linguistics has applied and theoretical components.
What’s the difference between NLP and Computational Linguistics?
CL:
- using computers for linguistic theory
- CL is a branch of Linguistics
NLP
- engineering a text processing application to solve particular task for particular reason
- NLP is a branch of Machine Learning, Statistics and engineering
- usually follows empirical approaches: collecting and analyzing lots of text data
- usually they are Shallow Models (see Linguistic Models)
Sources
- http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/what_is_cl.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics
- Semantic Domains in Computational Linguistics (book)