# computational linguistics

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.

## Etymology
Coined by American linguist and computer scientist David Hays in the 1960s.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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