Not to shoot across the bow of CS Engineers but the trend I spot (tentatively) is that it is pure computer science folk that most often do this. In NLP you have

Not to shoot across the bow of CS Engineers but the trend I spot (tentatively) is that it is pure computer science folk that most often do this. In NLP you have a mix of people coming from pure CS and signal processing (the latter esp. in speech processing) and others who come from linguistics or other humanities. The CS people seem all too happy to humanise computation, probably because they had less direct teaching regarding the cognitive mechanisms behind cognition and language production.