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Computational Linguistics, MA at Tulane University

Tulane University, United States

Programme overview

The MA in Computational Linguistics draws on Tulane's linguistics programme and computer science department to study language from a computational perspective. It admits a small cohort of three to five students.

Faculty: School of Liberal Arts  |  Department: Linguistics  |  Duration: 30 credit hours (summer internship of 6 to 8 weeks)  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: New Orleans, LA, United States

What you will study

30 credit hours: a 12-credit core (Syntactic Theory, Linguistic Phonetics, Intro Artificial Intelligence, and Natural Language Processing or Textual Computation), six electives from linguistics and computer science, and a 6 to 8 week summer internship with written report.

Career pathways

Opportunities in automated text analysis, speech recognition, information retrieval, web search, machine translation, big data, cryptography and computer security.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Admits Tulane undergraduates with a background in linguistics, computer science or language study through the 4+1 programme, and external students preferably with an undergraduate degree in linguistics, computer science or the study of a language. CMPS 2170 Intro to Discrete Math is a prerequisite for some graduate computer science courses.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

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