language engineering 
noun [mass noun]
The field of computing that uses tools such as machine-readable dictionaries and sentence parsers in order to process natural languages for applications such as speech synthesis and machine translation.Questions of language engineering have generally been more vigorously considered in the US than in other English-speaking countries....
- Rhetorical's origins involved work carried out at Edinburgh University by Moens and Taylor on speech and language engineering.
- Our implementation of NegEx is created as a processing resource using the JAPE regular expression system within the GATE framework for language engineering.
Derivatives
language engineer
- Are language engineers discovering analytical distinctions that philosophers have missed?
- Moens, a Belgian-born linguist and language engineer, came to Edinburgh in the 1980s after a spell as an advertising copywriter to do a PhD in computational linguistics.
- I'm a language engineer by trade and usually this means I'm working on compilers or tools for other languages I didn't have any part in designing.