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)


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