Machine Learning

All the lexical-analysis processes and terms described above, from calculating keyness to detecting collocations to translating materials and providing sentiment analysis, are made more efficient through machine learning. Machine learning is the process of teaching a software program to make decisions independent of a human after the desired decision-making process has first been modeled extensively for the program. Machine learning requires that experts in both machine learning and computational linguistics initially design the parameters and adequately “teach” the computer how to recognize linguistically relevant patterns in written text.