Corpora: defining LE

[Hamish Cunningham]

hi

as a couple of people have pointed out, I wrote a paper that says a fair
bit on the topic:

H. Cunningham. A Definition and Short History of Language Engineering.
Journal of Natural Language Engineering, pages 1--16, vol 5, 1999

the paper contrasts LE with CL and NLP, drawing particularly on papers
by
Gazdar, Thompson, and Boguraev/Garigliano/Tate (the latter being the
editorial of the first issue of the Journal of NLE). e.g.:

CL is a part of the science of language that uses computers as
investigative tools; NLP is part of the science of computation whose
subject
matter is computer systems that process human language.

Language Engineering is
the discipline or act of engineering software systems that perform tasks
involving processing human language. Both the construction process and
its
outputs are measurable and predictable. The literature of the field
relates
to both application of relevant scientific results and a body of
practice.

regards

Hamish Cunningham
Fellow in Computer Science, University of Sheffield
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/