<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-22cb0747-d8f9-2a5e-5c92-c58cbdc7db0b"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>Thank you very much,</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anthony Schmidt and Jean-Luc Leese</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New
Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pukyong National University</span></span></div></div></body></html>