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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. We're looking for the best students to join us.

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Online repository offers resources for researchers

We recognize that the only way to advance language technologies research is to share our results with other professionals and researchers across the globe. The LTI Catalogue contains more than 100 different resources like tools, libraries, web services and data that are available to anyone. We hope that the catalogue will grow and thrive as our research does the same.

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Remembering Jaime Carbonell

Jaime Carbonell foresaw a world where people could freely communicate with each other, no matter what language they spoke. He knew that making this dream a reality would require automation, so he spent his career building systems that could understand human language.Carbonell, 66, died February 28, 2020, following an extended illness. He was the Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science and...

"Smiling Eyes" May Not Signify True Happiness After All

A smile that lifts the cheeks and crinkles the eyes is thought by many to be truly genuine. But new research at Carnegie Mellon University casts doubt on whether this joyful facial expression necessarily tells others how a person really feels inside.In fact, these "smiling eye" smiles, called Duchenne smiles, seem to be related to smile intensity, rather than acting as an indicator of whether...

LTI Students Train AI To Write Book of Limericks

CMU students all get their kicksBy building apps that attract mass clicksSo they teamed up in classBuilt an AI with sassThat wrote them a book full of lim'ricks.Pardon the doggerel, but what else would be appropriate when Carnegie Mellon University students create an artificial intelligence for writing poetry?Their digital Shakespeare was a project last semester in the School of Computer...

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