Certificate in Natural Language Technology
(Summer, Online; local students also have option to attend on-site class sessions)

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The Summer 2009 program is no longer accepting applications

Next program starts: Summer 2010

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Explore the potential of natural language processing - a tool that helps sort and integrate data through automated human languages. Learn to bridge the gap between people and machines through predictive text messaging, speech recognition software, dialogue systems, and speech prosthetics. Biomedical informatics, litigation support, media, and advertising benefit from language technologies. Position yourself to meet the present and future business demands for machine translation and information retrieval.

This program is offered online or in classroom format

What the Program Covers

  • Deep natural language processing techniques
  • Intelligent search and record indexing
  • Spell and grammar checking
  • Speech recognition software
  • Predictive text

Benefits

You will develop the skills to leverage machine translation to support popular commercial and strategic goals such as web search accuracy and speech recognition software design. Completed coursework for the second and third courses satisfy credits for the UW Professional Master's in Computational Linguistics degree.

Who Should Register

Level: Some Experience

  • Individuals interested in intelligent search
  • Individuals interested in automated generation of human language
  • Individuals interested in computational linguistics
  • Individuals interested in predictive text technologies or context-sensitive marketing

If you have questions about your eligibility for this program, give us a call at 888-469-6499.