[Corpora-List] How to get into NLP

Tue Jan 28 13:30:16 UTC 2014

Hi,

just as a hint, there is also an NLP course at coursera, which I started 
some time ago, but didn't finish due to time constraints. I thought it was 
really good, though, and gave some broad insight into the field.

https://www.coursera.org/course/nlp

Welcome!

Germán

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Anthony wrote:

> Hello. We are two university English language instructors with Master’s degrees in
> Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, and research interests in Corpus
> Linguistics and second language acquisition. Lately, we have developed an interest in
> Natural Language Processing. We would like to know the best way to get into NLP, given
> our backgrounds. Having reviewed a number of PHD programmes advertised here on Corpora
> Request over 2013, it seems that most positions require a background in Computer
> Science, Computational Linguistics, or related fields. We are currently familiarising
> ourselves with Python via some freely-available online courses (e.g., Codeacademy,
> Udacity, Coursera), and we are wondering what else we ought to be doing to realise our
> long-term goals.
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Anthony Schmidt and Jean-Luc Leese
> Pukyong National University
> 
>
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