As the role of computers increases in our daily lives, businesses and industry are seeking experts who can improve the nexus between humans and machines. Computational linguists are at the forefront of development of applications in translation, voice recognition, automated e-mail response, search engines and other pioneering technologies. Graduates of this master's program will gain the expertise needed for employment as language software development engineers and linguistic data specialists.

Students in our program have had wide success in internship placement, including positions at Google, Microsoft, PARC, SIL, Adapx, VoiceBox, Inquira, AOL (Tegic) and Amazon. They have also obtained full-time employment at Google, InXight, Cisco, Cataphora, VoiceBox and AOL (Tegic).

The following link provides an overview of the job market, showing both current and past jobs. While it is at the discretion of the employer to hire a given candidate, we believe that graduates from our program could be strong candidates for these positions. We make every effort to connect our current students with potential employment opportunities. We also believe this list may be helpful to individuals considering Computational Linguistics as a field of study so that they can see the diversity of employment opportunities available to individuals in this field.

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