computational linguist
- noun
- /ˌkəmˈpjuːtəˌʃənl lɪŋˈɡwɪst/
- Specialized
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lingüista computacional
- "It's surprising the technical part of the team didn't see that," says Mark Liberman, a computational linguist at the University of Pennsylvania who does not study the Indus but has followed the debate.
Examples
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She is also a Free Software programmer at large and a sometime computational linguist.
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An area that computational linguists had been working on for decades was advanced dramatically by a ton of data and a variation of Bayes' Theorem.
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A computational linguist uses algorithms to analyze natural language data.
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She became a computational linguist to merge her passion for linguistics and technology.
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As a computational linguist, he develops programs that help machines understand human speech.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derived from 'computational' (relating to computers/calculations) modifying 'linguist' (a language researcher), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a linguist who uses computational methods. This modifier+noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English formation, making the phrase immediately understandable.
Etymology
The term computational linguist comes from joining computational (about computers) and linguist (a person who studies language). Imagine someone teaching a 'computer' to understand words and sentences, so the name means 'a person who uses computers to study and work with human language'.
