MS in Computational Linguistics
Professor Sargur Srihari, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, teaching students about Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing
Overview
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 graduate Xuejiao Chen accepted this Spring of 2002 a position as an assistant NLP Engineer at the Institute of Information Science of the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.
- MS graduate Soo Hyun Ryu has been accepted to the Psychology program at Michigan University, starting Fall 2020.
- MS graduates Mengyang-Qiu and Xuejiao Chen have turned a term paper into a published conference paper: Qiu, M., Chen, X., Liu, M., Parvathala, K., Patil, A. & Park, J. (2019) "Improving precision of grammatical error correction with a cheat sheet", in Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, collocated with the 2019 ACL Conference.
- MS student Soo Hyun Ryu will graduate in the Spring of 2019 and will be working as a researcher in the NLP*CL Lab at Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) as well as a Grammar Developer for Lionbridge.
- MS student Soo Hyun Ryu presented a paper entitled "On the interaction between dependency frequency and thematic fit in sentence processing" at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, NYC.
- MS/PhD student Erika Bellingham completed an internship at Google, as a Analytical Linguist Intern (Intent Schema Team) from June 2018 to August 2018. She worked on natural language systems for the Google Assistant, and used linguistic analysis to improve Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Generation systems.
- MS/PhD student Hao Sun has graduated in the Spring of 2018, and was hired as an Artificial Intelligence Scientist by at Astound, AI., a startup located in Menlo Park, California.
- MS student Dianna Radpour took a leave during the Spring of 2018 to participate in an internship in the Reiken Institute (Tokyo, Japan). In the Fall of 2018 she graduated, and moved on to a PhD program at the University Colorado.
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.
Application Deadlines
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.
Online Application
Application Fee Waiver
The graduate application fee is $75 U.S. (payable online or by check or money order made payable to the University at Buffalo). Students may be eligible for an application fee waiver courtesy of the CAS Dean's Office. To learn more, please visit the College of Arts and Sciences. If they qualify for a waiver, students may then submit their MS application for formal review without the application fee, provided the fee waiver application has also been submitted and accepted.
Advising Faculty
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 Shihari, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering
Degree Requirements
| 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.
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Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering