COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does computational linguistics mean? 

• COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (noun)
  The noun COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS has 1 sense:

1. the use of computers for linguistic research and applications

  Familiarity information: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The use of computers for linguistic research and applications

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("computational linguistics" is a kind of...):

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computational linguistics"):

machine translation; MT (the use of computers to translate from one language to another)