Acronyms

A

• ACL = Association for Computational Linguistics
• AFNLP = Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
• AI = Artificial Intelligence
• AL = Artificial Language
• ALPAC = Automated Language Processing Advisory Committee
• ALPS = Automated Language Processing System
• AS = Anglo-Saxon
• ASL = American Sign Language
• ASR = Automatic Speech Recognition

C

• CAT = Computer Assisted/Aided Translation
• CBC = Clustering by Committee
• CCG = Combinatory Categorial Grammar
• CL = Computational Linguistics
• COBUILD = Collins Birmingham University International Language Database
• COLING = International Conference on Computational Linguistics
• CRF = Conditional Random Fields

D

• DRS = Discourse Representation Structure
• DRT = Discourse Representation Theory

E

• EACL = European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• EBMT = Example-based machine translation
• EM = Expectation Maximization

F

• FAHQMT = Fully Automated High-Quality Machine Translation
• FOL = First Order Logic

H

• HAMT = Human Assisted/Aided Machine Translation
• HLT = Human Language Technologies
• HMM = Hidden Markov Model
• HPSG = Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

I

• IE = Information Extraction
• IR = Information Retrieval
• IST = Information Society Technologies

K

• KR = Knowledge Representation

L

• LFG = Lexical Functional Grammar
• LSA = Latent Semantic Analysis; Linguistics Society of America
• LSI = Latent Semantic Indexing

M

• MAHT = Machine Assised/Aided Human Translation
• ME = Maximum Entropy
• MI = Mutual Information
• ML = Machine Learning
• MRD = Machine-Readable Dictionary
• MT = Mechanical Translation/Machine Translation

N

• NAACL = North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• 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

P

• PLSA = Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis
• PMI = Pointwise Mutual Information
• POS = Part of Speech

R

• RTE = Recognising Textual Entailment

S

• SLT = Spoken Language Translation
• SVM = Support Vector Machine

T

• TAG = Tree-Adjoining Grammar
• TINLAP = Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing
• TLA = Three-letter acronym
• TMI = Theoretical and Methodological Issues (in Machine Translation)
• TREC = The Text REtrieval Conference

V

• VSM = Vector Space Model

W

• WSD = Word Sense Disambiguation