Carnegie Mellon University

The Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon educates the leaders of tomorrow and performs groundbreaking research in the areas of:

Natural Language Processing | Computational Linguistics | Information Extraction | Summarization & Question Answering | Information Retrieval | Text Mining & Analytics | Knowledge Representation | Reasoning & Acquisition | Language Technologies for Education | Machine Learning | Machine Translation | Multimodal Computing and Interaction | Speech Processing | Spoken Interfaces & Dialogue Processing

Academics

Our unique programs offer the expertise to prepare you for a wide range of careers while staying true to the rigorous curriculum that defines computer science at CMU.

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Research

LTI faculty and students investigate more than 20 areas of language and information technologies, routinely producing breakthroughs that impact everything from education to healthcare.

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The LTI offers five graduate degrees in computer science: the Ph.D. in Language and Information Technology, the research-based Master of Language Technologies, and our three professional master's programs – the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems, the Master of Science in Biotechnology Innovation and Computation, and the Master of Computational Data Science.

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What's New and Notable at the LTI

Thursday, November 21, 2024

LTI Authors Win Dual Best Paper Awards at EMNLP

LTI PhD students Simran Khanuja and William Chen, along with their co-authors, take two of five Best Paper awards at the prestigious conference
Monday, November 11, 2024

LTI Authors Feature Prominently at EMNLP

33 papers from LTI researchers featured at this year's conference
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

LTI Researchers Design Models To Help Linguists Reconstruct Ancient Languages

A team led by the LTI's David Mortensen is using computer models to help reconstruct ancient languages. Their work received a Best Paper Award at the 2024 Association for Computational Linguistics conference.

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Visit Us

The LTI makes its home inside the Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies. We're right on campus, but an easy walk from great restaurants, coffee shops, museums and libraries.

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