Program Name : M.Tech in Computational Linguistics

About the Program:

MTech (CL) is a course-work intensive two year program in which students of computer science background get opportunity to learn how to apply computational knowledge for natural language processing that includes Machine translation, Information extraction and retrieval and Speech Technology. The students do three semesters of course work. They start working for their MTech project in the third semester and devote the last semester entirely for the project.

Objectives:

The aim of the program is:

To introduce students to Computational Linguistics
To prepare them to work either in industry in the area of Natural Language Processing or take up research or higher studies.

Since Computational Linguistics belongs to an interdisciplinary area, the program puts equal emphasis on teaching subjects of both areas: Computer Science and Linguistics, along with their synthesis.

Advantages (for the student): The students will become proficient in the area of Natural Language Processing. They can either enter the field of language technology industry as system builders or take research as a career.

Duration:

Two years

Eligibility:

BTech CS or any other branch of Engineering, MCA and Masters in Science or Mathematics.

Admission Process:

Through the PG entrance examination conducted by IIIT, Hyderabad

Curriculum (Semester-wise):

Semester I
CS 3001          Computer Environments & Scripting
MA 3201        Discrete Maths & Algorithms*                    OR
                       Problem Solving and Programming**
CS 4725        Natural Language Processing
HS 5090        Computational Linguistics I
HS 5092        Language Typology & Universals

Semester II
CS 5728        Natural Language Processing Applications
HS 5091        Computational Linguistics 2
HS 5093         Language & Society
                      CS Elective
                      Elective

Semester III
CS 3000     Advancesd Problem Solving*
        OR
MA 3201       Discrete Maths & Algorithms**
MA 3500        Probability and Random Processes
                      Elective
   MTech Project

Semester IV
MTech Project

Note:- *Course taken by students with CS background.
**Course taken by students with non-CS background

Overload is permitted in semester III

Elective Courses
CL-related Electives
Advanced Syntax
Natural Language Semantics
Cognitive Science
Grammar Formalism
Indian Grammatical Tradition/Information Dynamics in Language
Natural Language Dialog Systems
Ontology
Phonetics and Phonology
Linguistic Data: Collection and Analysis
Linguistics Data: Collection and Modeling

CL-related CS Electives
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Data Warehousing and Data Mining
Information Retrieval and Extraction

Academics