Corpora: language engineering

[Frederik Fouvry]

,-- On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:45:45 GMT, Patrick Hanks wrote:
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| Dear Tadeusz,
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| 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 recognition 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.

I would say that language engineering is the methodology to develop or
the development of such procedures.  But then I'm not a
lexicographer...

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Frederik Fouvry
fouvry at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de