[Corpora-List] How to get into NLP

[Osman Baskaya]

Hi Anthony,

Addition to Germán, you may follow this course as well:
https://www.coursera.org/course/nlangp. It touches almost all important
topics in NLP; it's good way to start with in order to expand your
knowledge on NLP.

Good luck!


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Noemie Guthmann <nomi.guthmann at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
>
> There is a plethora of very good Masters' degrees in Computational
> Linguistics that welcome people with the kind of background you describe.
> Have a look at the following link:
> http://www.lct-master.org/index.php?id=home
> For example, I can recommend the Edinburgh Master's degree in Speech and
> Language Processing (see
> http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lel_students/postgraduate/speech_and_language_processing/index.php).
> This degree and other similar ones in the UK are conveniently one-year
> programmes.
>
> Cheers,
> Noemie
>
>
> 2014-01-28 Anthony <anthony.teacher at yahoo.com>
>
>>  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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