Editing Language technology (section)

'''Language technology''', often called '''human language technology''' ('''HLT'''), studies methods of how computer programs or electronic devices can analyze, produce, modify or respond to human texts and speech.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Uszkoreit |first1=Hans |title=DFKI-LT - What is Language Technology |url=https://www.dfki.de/lt/lt-general.php |accessdate=16 November 2018}}</ref> Working with language technology often requires broad knowledge not only about [[linguistics]] but also about [[computer science]]. It consists of [[natural language processing]] (NLP) and [[computational linguistics]] (CL) on the one hand, many application oriented aspects of these, and more low-level aspects such as encoding and [[speech technology]] on the other hand. 

Note that these elementary aspects are normally not considered to be within the scope of related terms such as [[natural language processing]] and [[Computational linguistics|(applied) computational linguistics]], which are otherwise near-synonyms. As an example, for many of the world's lesser known languages, the foundation of language technology is providing communities with fonts and keyboard setups so their languages can be written on computers or mobile devices.<ref>{{cite web |title=SIL Writing Systems Technology |url=http://software.sil.org/wstech/ |website=sil.org |date=11 December 2018 |accessdate=9 December 2019}}</ref>