Past and future goals of Computational Linguistics

1. Basics: Computational Linguistics (CL) between research and technology 2. Application field 2.1 The paradigm of Machine Translation (MT) and the desire for overcoming the language barriers 2.1.1 The technological situation 2.1.2 Short overview of the history of machine translation 2.1.3 Goals for research in MT 2.2 The paradigm of Natural Language Understanding 2.3 Mainstream Topics of Computational Linguistics 2.3.1 The pradigm of morphological and syntactical analysis 2.3.2 The semantic turn: lexical knowldge and world knowledge 3. The Future of CL 3.1 Technological conditions of CL-Research in the age of multimedia 3.2 New application fields and visions 3.3 About statistics 3.4 Future research fields of Computational Linguistics 3.4.1 Discours studies 3.4.2 Advanced discours theories 3.4.3 Multimodal resources 3.5 Conclusions 4. Appendix: links and literature