The Sphere of Applications
Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi · 2017
This chapter focuses on combining different levels of linguistic knowledge with other sources of knowledge to build applicative natural language processing (NLP) software that is directly usable by humans. It presents the specificities of NLP software regarding their development cycle, architecture and evaluation. Several forms of software architecture have been developed, many of which are intended for the development of commercial applications for information systems. The chapter gives a general introduction to machine translation. After 1975, there was an increase in the need for translation systems by companies. This resurgence in interest was also supported by the development of new computer and electronic tools, such as programming languages and modeling, and the availability of more powerful computers. The systems developed at this time were mainly the most advanced and most sophisticated second-generation systems. Finally, the chapter presents some closing thoughts on concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book.