Computational Linguistics in the Internet Age

Computational Linguistics (CL) has attracted more and more interest in both academic and industry communities in recent years, since it plays an essential role in many Internet applications, including search engines, online translation systems, social networks, and so forth. Almost all CL techniques, ranging from morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of texts, to question answering, machine translation, summarization, and other complex techniques, can find their scopes in the Internet applications. However, conventional methodologies in CL research need to be adapted and improved, so as to deal with new challenges arise from the new application requirements as well as the large-scale and highly noisy web corpora. In this paper, we discuss the CL research in the background of Internet, including the new applications, resources, challenges, and methodologies.