RE: Corpora: language engineering

From: jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 11:52:25 MET

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    Tim,

    You are not alone...

    Here at UMIST, we have been doing both computational linguistics and
    language engineering for 25 years or so, where LE is to be interpreted
    as defined by Geoff ("contributing to practical, industrially or socially
    valuable NLP systems"). The term "language engineering" in this sense is
    one we adopted in the 90s to better describe one of our activities.

    As we include terminology and sublanguage within the scope of what we
    do, as well as computational lexicography, then wearing both a lexicographer's
    and a terminologist's hat, I'm quite happy to admit two senses of
    "language engineering", if not more - no doubt Ramesh would agree there.

    We even have an undergraduate Masters degree entitled Master of Language
    Engineering in Computational Linguistics (MLangEng) - a four year degree
    including work experience. There seems to be strong demand in Europe for
    graduates trained in LE in the NLP sense.

    Then again we are in a scientific and technological university, so it
    seems natural for us to be taking an engineering approach along with our
    colleagues in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, etc.

    Regards,

    Jock

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    John McNaught jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk Centre for Computational Linguistics Department of Language Engineering UMIST PO Box 88 Sackville Street Manchester, UK tel: +44.161.200.3098 (direct) M60 1QD fax: +44.161.200.3099



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