Academic Position of Natural Language Processing
Zhiwei Feng · Jiefangjun Waiyu Xueyuan xuebao · 2005
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an important section in contemporary linguistics. Defining the position of NLP in the academic system will be very helpful for the development of NLP. This paper tries to define the academic position of NLP from three aspects: its procedure, scope and development. It is concluded that NLP is a multilateral cross discipline, with linguistics as the main part, and also in relation to computer science, mathematics, psychology, philosophy, logic, statistics, electronic engineering, and biology. We have to make great efforts to update our knowledge, in order to meet the challenge of NLP.