Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/HLTsurvey.html

Oregon Health and Science University
1996

Abstract:

The field of human language technology covers a broad range of activities with the eventual goal of enabling people to communicate with machines using natural communication skills. Research and development activities include the coding, recognition, interpretation, translation, and generation of language.