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MS Language Technologies (MLT) at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Programme overview

The MLT is a two-year, research-focused master's intended to prepare students for a PhD programme. Students spend about half of each academic year on courses and half on research with a faculty advisor, with summers fully devoted to research.

Faculty: Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science  |  Duration: 2 years (24 months)  |  Intake: Fall  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States

What you will study

At least 120 course units (about 10 courses), at least 72 from LTI and 24 from SCS, plus directed research and an optional thesis. Sample courses include Grammars and Lexicons, Algorithms for NLP, Machine Translation and Speech Understanding.

Career pathways

Prepares students for a research career in academia or industry; many go on to PhD programmes.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Admissions requirements vary by programme and are published on the department's programme site; apply via the SCS Graduate Admissions process.

Intake: Fall

Duration: 2 years (24 months)

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