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Because of the growing availability of large amounts of natural language
data in electronic format (in the form of corpora and the Web), computational methods are
playing an increasing role in linguistic research, while, at the same
time, Natural Language Engineering (NLE) techniques are becoming
more widespread in areas such as data mining or web search. As the problems
tackled in the scientific study of language and by developers of Natural
Language Engineering applications are often the same, the interaction between
researchers using computational methods to study language and researchers
interested in NLE applications is likely to be beneficial to both. The
University of Essex has a long tradition of research in the area of Language and
Computation (which has a variety of names, including computational linguistics,
or natural language processing), starting with work on Machine Translation and
Parsing in the 1980s, as well as work on formal semantics (e.g.,
Property Theory). The Language and Computation group is an interdisciplinary
group created to foster such interaction between researchers within the
University, and includes staff and students from the Department of Languages and Linguistics, the Data
Archive and the
Language, Logic and Information group in the School of Computer
Science and Electronic Engineering.
For up-to-date information on the group's activities consult the Languange and Computation Group Wiki |