In our today´s society the term “Human Language Technologies” is one of the most cited because of its great importance, so, there are a lot of definitions made by specialists whom we are going to write and to mention in this article.
One of the most important definitions of HLT is made by the free encyclopedia Wikipedia:
“Human Language Technology (HLT) consists of computational linguistics (or CL) and speech technology as its core but includes also many application oriented aspects of them. Language technology is closely connected to computer science and general linguistics.”
Another important definition of that term is given by Hans Uszkoreit, who is professor of Computational Linguistics at the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics of Saarland University at Saabrücken. That scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and head of DFKI Language Technology Laboratory defines:
” Language technology — sometimes also referred to as human language technology — comprises computational methods, computer programs and electronic devices that are specialized for analyzing, producing or modifying texts and speech. These systems must be based on some knowledge of human language. Therefore language technology defines the engineering branch of computational linguistics”.
And a third definition of Human Language Technology could be the definition given by the African advanced Institute for Information and Communication Technology, Meraka Institute who says:
“Human Language Technology (HLT) makes it easier for people to interact with machines. This can benefit a wide range of people – from illiterate farmers in remote villages who want to obtain relevant medical information over a cell phone, to scientists in state-of-the-art laboratories who want to focus on problem-solving with computers”.
· SOURCES:
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o Language technology In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.phptitle=Language_technology&oldid=179070229
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o What is Language Technology? Language Technology Lab. from http://www.dfki.de/lt/lt-general.php.
- o African Advanced Institute for Information and Communication Technology from http://www.meraka.org.za/humanLanguage.htm
