Graduate Certificate in Computational Linguistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Computational linguistics is an increasingly important skill area as companies such as IBM, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Lionbridge, Microsoft, Oracle and many others seek employees who can develop products that employ machine algorithms to interface with human language. Crucially, computational linguistics is at the nexus of computer science, information science, and linguistics: the skills and expertise most sought by companies that hire people with training in computational linguistics or natural language processing is generally not attainable within a purely computer/information science or purely linguistics program.

Faculty: College of Arts and Sciences  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Chapel Hill, NC, United States

What you will study

The certificate requires a minimum of 112 credit hours. Required courses include LING 401 Introduction to Computational Linguistics; COMP 455 Models of Languages and Computation; INLS 512 Applications of Natural Language Processing; COMP 562 Introduction to Machine Learning; COMP 586 Natural Language Processing; COMP 790 Topics in Computer Science (Introduction to Textual Data Analysis).

Career pathways

Students are expected to engage in the life of the departments involved in this Certificate, attending as many talks, colloquia, and lab group meetings as are relevant to the student’s primary areas of interest and which align with the student’s career goals.

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