计算语言学是一个跨学科领域，致力于使用计算机来处理或产生人类语言。语言学有助于该领域对语言数据的特殊性质的理解，并提供语言结构和使用的理论和描述。计算语言学在很大程度上是一门涉及实际问题的应用学科。典型的应用包括自然语言处理，机器翻译（从一种语言翻译成另一种语言），语音合成，语音生成，信息检索（在大量文本中查找相关文档或文档的一部分）认知建模，以及通常几乎所有的内容处理自然语言界面。<br> 30学时。
Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which addresses the use of computers to process or produce human language. Linguistics contributes to this field an understanding of the special properties of language data, and also provides theories and descriptions of language structure and use. Computational linguistics is largely an applied discipline concerned with practical problems. Typical applications include: natural language processing, machine translation (translating from one language to another), speech synthesis, speech production, information retrieval (finding relevant documents or parts of documents in large collections of texts), cognitive modeling, and, in general, almost anything dealing with natural language interfaces.