Computational Linguistics

Where the fields of Computer Science and Linguistics meet.

Useful subjects:
• natural language processing
• artificial intelligence
• statistics
• machine translation
• text mining

From linguistics:
• phonology
• morphology
• semantics
• syntax

Also called
• Natural Language Technology
• Human Language Technology (companies)

Networks
• North America
∘ Linguistics society of America www.lsdadc.org
∘ North American Association of Computational Linguistics www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/naacl
• International
∘ Association of Computational Linguistics www.aclweb.org
• Europe
∘ European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies http://www.elsnet.org/

Links
• http://compling.washington.edu/compling/coolcareers_excerpt.pdf

Companies active in the field
• http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/hlt/

Universities
• Europe/Belgium
‣ KUL http://www.ccl.kuleuven.be/