Dear Patrick
This is an interesting defintion of 'language engineering'. The New OED
suggests that speech synthesis/speech recognition [systems] use
machine-readable dictionaries and sentence parsers. Is there any evidence of
that in any of the research/industrial applications or products? Langauge
engineering working at its best, I think, in machine-assisted translation,
document routing systems, in the adaptation of dictionaries (admittedly not
OED) to work alongside word processing systems, and in the various easy to use
dictation machines. Also, I thought much of the speech recognition is based
on statistical langauge analysis. Most of the parsers, I used to think, are
used in the generation of research proposals for writing an ever bigger
parser. Perhaps things have changed in the last few years.
Best wishes
In message <200002161745.RAA06996@lion.oup.co.uk>you write:
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>Dear Tadeusz,
>
>The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) defines "language
>engineering" as:
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><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 recogn
>ition and speech synthesis.</df>
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>
>I realize this is not an exhaustive definition, but rather a
>characterization. All the same, I hope you will find it helpful.
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>Regards,
>
>
>Patrick
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>Patrick Hanks
>Chief Editor, Current English Dictionaries
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