Computational linguistics, or language technology, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the computational modeling of natural language. Research is driven both by the theoretical goal of understanding human language processing and by practical applications involving natural language processing, such as systems for automatic translation, information retrieval and human-computer dialogue.

The computational linguistics group at Uppsala University has a strongly empirical orientation emphasizing multilingual systems, especially machine translation, and systems for grammatical analysis of text, in particular dependency-based parsing. The group has been involved in the development of a number of tools and resources, such as MaltParser (data-driven dependency parser), UPlug (toolbox for parallel corpus alignment), Swedish Treebank (syntactically annotated corpus), and OPUS (multilingual parallel corpus). The group is part of the Swedish national graduate school in language technology (GSLT) and organized the major international conference ACL in Uppsala in July 2010.