Tadeusz,
European Union Telematics research funding agencies assume "Language
Engineering" involves modelling language on computers, eg Glossary in
"The Language Machine" definition:
language engineering - the application of knowledge of language to the
development of computer systems that can recognise, understand, interpret
and generate human language in all its forms.
However, I could understand social scientists / sociolinguists might want
to extend the notion of "social engineering", planning and organising
society, to "language engineering", meaning to (attempt to) impose
planning and constraints on language development; for example, the Academie
Francais banning the use of certain words as "un-French". That said,
I have never heard or seen the phrase "language engineering" with this
sense; can any Corpus Linguists help out with KWIC citations?....
Eric Atwell
Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Coordinator
Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
School of Computer Studies, Faculty of Engineering,
University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
EMAIL: eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk TEL: (44)113-2335430 FAX: (44)113-2335468
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