Corpora: language engineering

[Khurshid Ahmad]

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 at 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>
>
>
>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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