language engineering

{{Short description|Creation of language processing systems}}

{{about|applied computational linguistics|deliberate language change|language planning|engineering of new languages|constructed language}}

Language engineering involves the creation of natural language processing systems, whose cost and outputs are measurable and predictable.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} It is a distinct field contrasted to natural language processing and computational linguistics.[https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1351324999002144] Hamish Cunnigham, Natural Language Engineering (1999), 5: 1-16 Cambridge University Press A recent trend of language engineering is the use of Semantic Web technologies for the creation, archiving, processing, and retrieval of machine processable language data.Shiyong Lu, Dapeng Liu, Farshad Fotouhi, Ming Dong, Robert Reynolds, Anthony Aristar, Martha Ratliff, Geoff Nathan, Joseph Tan, and Ronald Powell, "Language Engineering for the Semantic Web: a Digital Library for Endangered Languages", Information Research, 9(3), April, 2004.