计算语言学（也称为自然语言处理，缩写为NLP）是信息时代至关重要的领域。随着语音和文本数据量的增长，对理解人类语言的自动化工具和NLP专家开发和操作这些工具的需求不断增长。在工业中，计算语言学技术已广泛用于搜索引擎，数字图书馆，语音识别系统和数据挖掘工具包中。SAS和SPSS等领先的数据分析公司都已在其产品中添加了文本分析组件。还提供了许多开源的NLP工具包。具有大量文本数据的公司需要NLP专家来开发内部工具或使用现成的工具来分析其语料库。
Computational Linguistics (also called Natural Language Processing, abbreviated as NLP) is a field of vital importance in the information age. With growing amounts of speech and text data, the demand keeps increasing for automated tools to understand human language and NLP specialists to develop and operate these tools.<br><br>In industry, Computational Linguistics techniques are being widely used in search engines, digital libraries, speech recognition systems, and data mining toolkits. The leading data analysis companies like SAS and SPSS all have added text analysis components to their products. Many open-source NLP toolkits have also been available. Companies with large amount of text data need NLP specialists to develop in-house tools or use off-the-shelf tools to analyze their corpora.