What does Research mean ?

Research in Computer Science & Engineering field and in Natural Language Processing field means you have to be strong in Programming language such as Java , C , C++ and you should have a deep knowledge in English Grammar and Bengali Grammar if you are a Bengali . At the same time you should have a deep knowledge in Probability theory and in mathematics . You have to be strong in some knowledge of Linguistics .Because Natural Language Processing needs some linguistics knowledge . You have to be a complete package of all this .Machine Translation needs your deep knowledge in source language and target language grammar . Again you have to read your related field - research papers and thesis papers available in internet .You have to study a lot these research papers and thesis papers for to be up to date with your related research field .