Acronyms

A

• ACL = Association for Computational Linguistics
• ACTFL = American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• 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/Bilingual Education
• BEV = Black English Vernacular
• BICS = Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills

C

• CALL = Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• CALP = Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
• CAT = Computer Assisted/Aided Translation
• CCG = Combinatory Categorial Grammar
• ChE = Chicano English
• CHILDES = Child Language Data Exchange System
• CL = Computational Linguistics
• CLD = Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
• 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
• DBE = Developmental Bilingual Education
• 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
• EFL = English as a Foreign Language
• ELL = English Language Learner
• ESL = English as a Second Language
• ESOL = English for Speakers of Other Languages
• EURALEX = European Association for Lexicography

F

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

H

• HAMT = Human Assisted/Aided Machine Translation
• HILT = High Intensity Language Training
• HLS = Home Language Survey
• HLT = Human Language Technologies
• HPSG = Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

I

• ICAME = International Computer Archive of Modern English
• IEP = Intensive English Program
• IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet
• IR = Information Retrieval
• IST = Information Society Technologies

K

• KR = Knowledge Representation

L

• L1,L2 = First Language, Second Language
• 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
• NCLRC = National Capital Language Resource Center
• 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
• SLA = Second Language Acquisition
• SLT = Spoken Language Translation
• SNS = Spanish for Native Speakers
• SPL = Sound Pressure Level
• SSL = Spanish as a Second Language

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