What is language technology?

Language technology (also called computational linguistics) is a broad and cross-disciplinary area, where linguistics and computer science meet. It concerns how human language is constructed and how a computer may be programmed in order to handle our language. The goal of language technology is to simplify and improve the communication between people and between people and computers. It might be that you thanks to an automatically read translation are able to speak Swedish with someone who speaks Arabic, that you can talk to your computer instead of using the keyboard, or that your text is automatically corrected by the computer.