Language engineering

This article is about applied computational linguistics. For deliberate language change, see language planning. For engineering of new languages, see constructed language.

Language engineering involves the creation of natural language processing systems, whose cost and outputs are measurable and predictable.[citation needed] It is a distinct field contrasted to natural language processing and computational linguistics.[1] A recent trend of language engineering is the use of Semantic Web technologies for the creation, archiving, processing, and retrieval of machine processable language data.[2]

  1. ^ [1] Hamish Cunnigham, Natural Language Engineering (1999), 5: 1-16 Cambridge University Press
  2. ^ Shiyong Lu, Dapeng Liu, Farshad Fotouhi, Ming Dong, Robert Reynolds, Anthony Aristar, Martha Ratliff, Geoff Nathan, Joseph Tan, and Ronald Powell, "Language Engineering for the Semantic Web: a Digital Library for Endangered Languages", Information Research, 9(3), April, 2004.