tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Development of Computational Linguistics Research: a Challenge for Indonesia"

The emergence of Internet as a global information repository, where information of all kind is stored, requires intelligent information processing tools (., computer applications) to help the information seeker to retrieve the stored information. To build these intelligent information processing tools, we need to build computer applications that understand human language since most of those information is represented in human language. This is where computational linguistics becomes important, especially for countries like Indonesia that hosts more than 200 million people. . | Development of Computational Linguistics Research a Challenge for Indonesia Bobby Nazief . Computer Science Center University of Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia nazief@ 1 Introduction The emergence of Internet as a global information repository where information of all kind is stored requires intelligent information processing tools . computer applications to help the information seeker to retrieve the stored information. To build these intelligent information processing tools we need to build computer applications that understand human language since most of those information is represented in human language. This is where computational linguistics becomes important especially for countries like Indonesia that hosts more than 200 million people. We need to develop a systematic understanding of the Bahasa Indonesia the Indonesian national language to enable us develop the needed computer applications that will help us manage information intelligently. However until recently there is only a few research activities in computational linguistics conducted in Indonesia. The establishment of Computer Science departments in Indonesian universities that did not start until the beginning of 1980 s may be partially responsible for this1. In addition the Indonesian linguists seem to be keen on working manually instead of using computers in conducting their linguistics researches as stated in Muhadjir 1995 only few of them really make use of the technology. While on the other hand most computer scientists tend to use the practical approach rather than constructing a complete framework to understand the language when building related applications such as a specific information retrieval system. In the following I will describe past research activities in computational linguistics on Bahasa Indonesia. This description is by no means exhaustive since it is very difficult to find out research activities in computational linguistics in Indonesia. 2 Past Research .