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== B ==
 
== B ==
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* BE = Black English
 
* BEV = Black English Vernacular
 
* BEV = Black English Vernacular
  
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* CAT = Computer Assisted/Aided Translation
 
* CAT = Computer Assisted/Aided Translation
 
* CCG = Combinatory Categorial Grammar
 
* CCG = Combinatory Categorial Grammar
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* ChE = Chicano English
 
* CHILDES = Child Language Data Exchange System
 
* CHILDES = Child Language Data Exchange System
 
* CL = Computational Linguistics
 
* CL = Computational Linguistics
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* MAHT = Machine Assised/Aided Human Translation
 
* MAHT = Machine Assised/Aided Human Translation
 
* ML = Machine Learning
 
* ML = Machine Learning
* MLU = Mean Length of Utterance
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* MLU = Mean Length of Utterance(s)
 
* MRD = Machine-Readable Dictionary
 
* MRD = Machine-Readable Dictionary
 
* MT = Mechanical Translation/Machine Translation
 
* MT = Mechanical Translation/Machine Translation
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* POS = Part of Speech
 
* POS = Part of Speech
 
* POV = Point of View
 
* POV = Point of View
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* PP = Prepositional Phrase
 
* PSG = Phrase Structure Grammar
 
* PSG = Phrase Structure Grammar
  
 
== R ==
 
== R ==
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* RT = Response Time/Reaction Time
 
* [[RTE]] = Recognising Textual Entailment
 
* [[RTE]] = Recognising Textual Entailment
  
 
== S ==
 
== S ==
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* SAE = Standard American English
 
* SL = Second Language
 
* SL = Second Language
 
* [[SLT]] = Spoken Language Translation
 
* [[SLT]] = Spoken Language Translation
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== U ==
 
== U ==
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* UG = Universal Grammar
 
* UPSID = University of California, Los Angeles, Phonological Segment Inventory Database
 
* UPSID = University of California, Los Angeles, Phonological Segment Inventory Database
  

Revision as of 15:35, 28 September 2008

A

  • ACL = Association for Computational Linguistics
  • ADJ = Adjective
  • AFNLP = Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
  • AI = Artificial Intelligence
  • AL = Artificial Language
  • ALPAC = Automated Language Processing Advisory Committee
  • ALPS = Automated Language Processing System
  • ART = Article
  • AS = Anglo-Saxon
  • ASL = American Sign Language
  • ASR = Automatic Speech Recognition
  • AUX = Auxiliary Verb/Auxiliary

B

  • BE = Black English
  • BEV = Black English Vernacular

C

  • CALL = Computer-Assisted Language Learning
  • CAT = Computer Assisted/Aided Translation
  • CCG = Combinatory Categorial Grammar
  • ChE = Chicano English
  • CHILDES = Child Language Data Exchange System
  • CL = Computational Linguistics
  • COBUILD = Collins Birmingham University International Language Database
  • COLING = International Conference on Computational Linguistics
  • CSL = Chinese Sign Language
  • CULT = Chinese Universty Language Translator

D

  • DAF = Delayed Auditory Feedback
  • DET = Determiner
  • DRS = Discourse Representation Structure
  • DRT = Discourse Representation Theory

E

  • EACL = European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • EBMT = Example-based machine translation
  • EM = Expectation Maximization
  • EURALEX = European Association for Lexicography

F

  • FAHQMT = Fully Automated High-Quality Machine Translation
  • FL = Foreign Language
  • FLL = Foreign-Language Learning
  • FLT = Foreign-Language Teaching

H

  • HAMT = Human Assisted/Aided Machine Translation
  • HLT = Human Language Technologies
  • HPSG = Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

I

  • ICAME = International Computer Archive of Modern English
  • IE = Information Extraction
  • IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet
  • IR = Information Retrieval
  • IST = Information Society Technologies

K

  • KR = Knowledge Representation

L

  • LAD = Language Acquisition Device
  • LARSP = Language Assessment, Remediation, and Screening Procedure
  • LFG = Lexical Functional Grammar
  • LSA = Latent Semantic Analysis; Linguistics Society of America

M

  • MAHT = Machine Assised/Aided Human Translation
  • ML = Machine Learning
  • MLU = Mean Length of Utterance(s)
  • MRD = Machine-Readable Dictionary
  • MT = Mechanical Translation/Machine Translation

N

  • NAACL = North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • NE = Named Entity
  • NEALT = Northern European Association for Language Technology
  • NER = Named Entity Recognition
  • NLG = Natural Language Generation
  • NLP = Natural Language Processing
  • NLU = Natural Language Understanding
  • NML = National Museum of Language
  • NP = Noun Phrase

O

  • OED = Oxford English Dictionary

P

  • PGSS = Paget-Gorman Sign System
  • POS = Part of Speech
  • POV = Point of View
  • PP = Prepositional Phrase
  • PSG = Phrase Structure Grammar

R

  • RT = Response Time/Reaction Time
  • RTE = Recognising Textual Entailment

S

  • SAE = Standard American English
  • SL = Second Language
  • SLT = Spoken Language Translation
  • SPL = Sound Pressure Level

T

  • TAG = Tree-Adjoining Grammar
  • TG = Transformational Grammar
  • TINLAP = Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing
  • TLA = Three-letter acronym
  • TMI = Theoretical and Methodological Issues (in Machine Translation)

U

  • UG = Universal Grammar
  • UPSID = University of California, Los Angeles, Phonological Segment Inventory Database

V

  • VOT = Voice Onset Time
  • VP = Verb Phrase

W

  • WSD = Word Sense Disambiguation