computerlinguistics

noun

UK /kəmˈpjuːtə lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/

US /kəmˈpjuːtər lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/

Computerlinguistics is the study of how computers can understand and work with human language.

She studied computerlinguistics to help build a program that can translate between languages.

SYNONYMS

computational linguistics language technology natural language processing machine linguistics

RELATED WORDS

linguistics artificial intelligence machine translation speech recognition corpus

OTHER MEANINGS

2. The use of computers to analyze large collections of written or spoken language.

Computerlinguistics helps researchers study how words are used across millions of books.

3. The branch of science that builds tools like chatbots and translation apps.

Thanks to computerlinguistics, my phone can understand what I say.

4. The study of rules and patterns in language using computer programs.

In computerlinguistics class, we wrote code to find patterns in sentences.