Alex around the World

Remember my last post about me dreaming about the new MacBook Pro? It contained a word (in fact 2) that may seem a bit strange to some readers. I thought it could be a good idea to describe it in more details, specially since Wikipedia has a quite complete entry for this concept:

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and logical modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics. Computational linguists were formerly usually computer scientists who had specialized in the application of computers to the processing of a natural language. Recent research has shown that language is much more complex than previously thought, so computational linguistics work teams are now sometimes interdisciplinary, including linguists (specifically trained in linguistics). Computational linguistics draws upon the involvement of linguists, computer scientists, experts in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychologists and logicians, amongst others.