Re: Corpora: language engineering

From: Patrick Hanks (phanks@oup.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 18:45:45 MET

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    Dear Tadeusz,

    The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) defines "language
    engineering" as:

    <gg><sy>mass noun</sy></gg> <df>any of a variety of computing procedures that use tools such as machine-readable dictionaries and sentence parsers in order to process natural languages for industrial applications such as speech recognition and speech synthesis.</df>

    I realize this is not an exhaustive definition, but rather a
    characterization. All the same, I hope you will find it helpful.

    Regards,

    Patrick

    Patrick Hanks
    Chief Editor, Current English Dictionaries
    Oxford University Press
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