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GRADUATE PROGRAMS
DOCTORAL PROGRAMS
Language & Information
Technologies
The Ph.D. program in
Language and Information Technologies is designed to build on CMU's
strengths in computational linguistics, machine translation, information
management and speech understanding by offering a program focusing
on these areas. These fields of study have shown considerable recent
growth, and are poised for further breakthroughs which take advantage
of emerging technological infrastructures such as the World-Wide
Web, mobile computing, and multimedia interfaces.
- Computational Linguistics
including parsing, generation, representation, machine translation,
and key-fact mining of text.
- Speech Understanding
including speaker-independent recognition, large vocabulary dictation,
task-oriented interfaces and speech-to-speech MT.
- Information management
including text retrieval, indexing, summarization, categorization
and data-base infrastructure.
- Multimedia systems
combining many of the above technologies and extending them beyond
text and speech into animation, video and virtual reality.
These areas involve active
scientific inquiry as well as rapid paths towards applications (CMU's
development of LYCOS is a clear example). Moreover, there is considerable
synergy among the four areas in terms of objective, methods, and the
need to combine functionalities; a Ph.D. program encompassing all
four areas provides an integrated and coherent course of study.
For more information
please contact the Language
Technologies Institute.
To apply, please see
our Admissions page.
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