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100 Words Every Computational Linguist Should Know

July 19, 2026

100 Words Every Computational Linguist Should Know

No. Item Definition
1. accuracy overall proportion correct
2. agreement grammatical matching of features
3. alignment linking corresponding language units
4. anaphora backward reference in discourse
5. annotation adding linguistic labels to data
6. argument participant linked to predicate
7. aspect event structure over time
8. attention mechanism weighting relevant inputs
9. baseline simple reference system
10. beam search search keeping top candidates
11. benchmark standard test for comparison
12. bias systematic skew in data
13. classification assigning items to categories
14. clustering grouping similar items
15. collocation words commonly occurring together
16. completion generated continuation or response
17. concordance keyword occurrences with context
18. constituent syntactic unit within a sentence
19. context surrounding information affecting meaning
20. coreference expressions referring to same entity
21. corpus a structured collection of texts
22. coverage extent of handled cases
23. dataset organized collection of data
24. decoding choosing output tokens stepwise
25. deixis context-dependent reference
26. dependency head-dependent grammatical relation
27. dialect regional or social variety
28. disambiguation resolving multiple possible meanings
29. discourse connected language beyond sentences
30. distance measure of difference
31. embedding numeric vector for language units
32. entailment one statement implies another
33. entity named or referential thing
34. evaluation assessing system performance
35. F-score combined precision and recall measure
36. feature measurable property or attribute
37. frame structured situation with roles
38. gender grammatical noun class
39. generalization performance on unseen examples
40. generation producing language output
41. grapheme smallest writing unit
42. grounding linking output to evidence
43. hallucination confident but false generation
44. homonymy same form, unrelated meanings
45. hypernym more general category term
46. hyponymy subcategory relation in meaning
47. implicature suggested meaning beyond literal words
48. index structure enabling fast lookup
49. inference drawing output from a model
50. inflection form change marking grammar
51. language model model predicting language patterns
52. lemma dictionary base form of a word
53. lexicon vocabulary inventory of a language
54. meronymy part-whole meaning relation
55. modality expression of possibility or necessity
56. morpheme smallest meaningful language unit
57. n-gram sequence of n items
58. negation grammatical denial or reversal
59. noise irrelevant or erroneous data
60. normalization standardizing text forms
61. number singular or plural category
62. ontology formal representation of concepts
63. overfitting memorizing training data too closely
64. parser system that analyzes syntax
65. perplexity uncertainty measure for language models
66. phoneme smallest distinctive speech sound
67. pipeline ordered sequence of processing steps
68. pragmatics meaning in context
69. precision correct positives among predicted positives
70. predicate word expressing action or state
71. preprocessing cleaning and preparing data
72. prompt input instruction for a model
73. query request for information
74. ranking ordering by estimated relevance
75. recall found positives among actual positives
76. register language variety by situation
77. regularization method reducing overfitting
78. relation meaningful link between entities
79. retrieval fetching relevant stored information
80. role semantic function in an event
81. sampling randomized output selection
82. segmentation dividing text into units
83. semantics study of meaning
84. similarity degree of likeness
85. sparsity many possible events rarely seen
86. stemming reducing words to stems
87. summarization producing a shorter version
88. syntax rules for sentence structure
89. tagger system assigning linguistic labels
90. token an individual text unit
91. tokenization splitting text into tokens
92. training learning from example data
93. transcription written representation of speech
94. transformer attention-based neural architecture
95. treebank parsed sentences collection
96. type a distinct word form
97. underfitting failing to capture patterns
98. utterance a spoken or written instance
99. voice relationship between action and participants
100. wordnet network of lexical relations

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