<s>
Language	B-Application
technology	I-Application
,	O
often	O
called	O
human	B-Application
language	I-Application
technology	I-Application
(	O
HLT	O
)	O
,	O
studies	O
methods	O
of	O
how	O
computer	O
programs	O
or	O
electronic	O
devices	O
can	O
analyze	O
,	O
produce	O
,	O
modify	O
or	O
respond	O
to	O
human	O
texts	O
and	O
speech	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Working	O
with	O
language	B-Application
technology	I-Application
often	O
requires	O
broad	O
knowledge	O
not	O
only	O
about	O
linguistics	O
but	O
also	O
about	O
computer	B-General_Concept
science	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
consists	O
of	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
and	O
computational	O
linguistics	O
(	O
CL	O
)	O
on	O
the	O
one	O
hand	O
,	O
many	O
application	O
oriented	O
aspects	O
of	O
these	O
,	O
and	O
more	O
low-level	O
aspects	O
such	O
as	O
encoding	O
and	O
speech	B-Application
technology	I-Application
on	O
the	O
other	O
hand	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Note	O
that	O
these	O
elementary	O
aspects	O
are	O
normally	O
not	O
considered	O
to	O
be	O
within	O
the	O
scope	O
of	O
related	O
terms	O
such	O
as	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
and	O
(	O
applied	O
)	O
computational	O
linguistics	O
,	O
which	O
are	O
otherwise	O
near-synonyms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
an	O
example	O
,	O
for	O
many	O
of	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
lesser	O
known	O
languages	O
,	O
the	O
foundation	O
of	O
language	B-Application
technology	I-Application
is	O
providing	O
communities	O
with	O
fonts	O
and	O
keyboard	O
setups	O
so	O
their	O
languages	O
can	O
be	O
written	O
on	O
computers	O
or	O
mobile	O
devices	O
.	O
</s>
