Carnegie Mellon University

Empowering human communication through trustworthy language technologies

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 Artificial Intelligence and Innovation, and the Master of Computational Data Science.

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What's New and Notable at the LTI

Friday, June 27, 2025

Using Hand Gestures To Evaluate AI Biases

LTI researchers have created a model to help generative AI systems understand the cultural nuance of gestures.
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Does Your Chatbot Swear to Tell the Truth?

New research finds that LLM-based agents can't always be trusted to be truthful
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

LTI's Bisk Receives Amazon Research Award

Assistant Professor Yonatan Bisk is among five School of Computer Science faculty members to receive the award this year

The LTI Bill of Rights

Get the right information to the right people at the right time in the right language, the right format, and the right level of detail.

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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