Professor Sargur Srihari, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, teaching students about Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing
The Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering jointly participate in a Master of Science in Computational Linguistics. The mission of the program is to prepare students for a career in the Human Language Technologies industry. This program is on the STEM OPT extension list (CIP number 30.1801). If you are a current UB Linguistics PhD student interested in pursuing the MS as well, please view the PhD Applicants to MS page.
There are currently eight students in the MS program, two of which are also pursuing a PhD in Linguistics.
Student spotlight
MS students are encouraged to seek internships they are interested in via Bullseye, or to participate in our local internship in the Natural Language Understanding Laboratory at the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
March 1: All international MA/MS applicants
April 1: All domestic MA/MS applicants
Application reviews begin January 15 of each year, and continue throughout the spring semester.
Ideal applicants to the MS have :
Applications without GRE scores (or any one of the above qualities) will still receive full consideration, and may still be admitted if the application is otherwise strong.
The MS degree aslo requires the completion of a capstone project (LIN600), which consists of a significant amount of programming and allows students to specialize in particular techniques, methodos and/or research. The project can be completed at any time during the program and can be advised by any of the following faculty. For a recent example of a project that became a published paper see https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-1004/.
Rui P. Chaves, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Rachael Hinkle, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Yingjie Hu, Assistant Professor of Geography
Jean-Pierre Koenig, Professor of Linguistics
Rohini Srihari, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Credit Hours: 36 | |
Required Linguistics Courses |
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Required Computer Science Courses |
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Electives* |
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*To be chosen in agreement with each student’s advisor; other classes may be taken with approval of the Director of Graduate Studies in the concentration for Computational Linguistics, Professor Rui P. Chaves.
Required courses may be waived if a corresponding course has already been taken. For information on Computer Science courses, please visit the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering