Language engineering involves the creation of
natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to proc ...
systems, whose cost and outputs are measurable and predictable. It is a distinct field contrasted to natural language processing and
computational linguistics
Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ...
. 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.
[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.]
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Natural language processing
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