Keeletehniline

Keeletehniline is an Estonian adjective meaning related to language technology. In practice, it is used to describe methods, tools, and research that enable computers to understand, generate, or manipulate human language. The term often appears alongside keeletehnoloogia (language technology) and keeletehnilised lahendused (language-technology solutions), emphasizing the role of computational approaches in processing language.

The scope of keeletehniline covers natural language processing, computational linguistics, and various speech technologies. It encompasses tasks such as morphological analysis, syntax parsing, part-of-speech tagging, machine translation, speech recognition, and text-to-speech systems. It also includes information retrieval, text mining, and text analytics. A key aspect is resource development, including corpora, lexicons, and language models, as well as the design and implementation of software that processes Estonian and other languages.

Keeletehniline work is interdisciplinary, blending linguistics, computer science, and data science. It is applied in a wide range of software and services, including spell checkers, grammar checkers, voice assistants, transcription tools, translation systems, search engines, and educational applications. The field supports both basic research on language structure and practical development of tools that improve digital communication and accessibility.

See also: keeletehnoloogia, computational linguistics, natural language processing.