Master's Certificate:
Human Language Technology
Overview
Admission and Eligibility
Curriculum
Core Courses
Optional Courses
Overview
The explosive growth
of the Web and the vast improvements
in computing power in the last decade
have led to a strong need for education
and research in human language technology.
Human language technology is an interdisciplinary
field that includes the following key
technological and scientific areas:
Admission and Eligibility
The Human Language Technology
Program offers a Master's-level certificate,
which accompanies a normal MA or MS degree
in one of the three Human Language Technology
disciplines:
- Computer Science
- Linguistics
- Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
The program is available to currently
enrolled CU Boulder Master's or PhD students
in any of the three fields above, including
students enrolled in a 5-year concurrent
MA/BA program. Interested students should
contact the HLT Curriculum Committee
member in the appropriate department.
Department representatives on the HLT
Curriculum Committee are:
| Computer Science |
Jim Martin |
martin@cs.colorado.edu |
| Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences |
Kathryn Arehart |
kathryn.arehart@colorado.edu |
| Linguistics |
Martha Palmer |
martha.palmer@colorado.edu |
Students interested in the HLT
certificate who are not currently enrolled at the University of
Colorado must first apply to and be admitted to a graduate program in
one of the three participating departments. Prospective students should
contact an HLT Curriculum Committee member to register interest in the
HLT program; the HLT Curriculum Committee member can then forward the
student's inquiry to admissions staff in the appropriate department.
Curriculum
The curriculum for the
certificate consists of 5 different courses:
- One semester of programming
(CSCI 1300) (waived for those with
programming background)
- Three courses from the core
list; at least two of these three
must be outside the student's home
department and college.
- One course from the optional
course list (or 2 from the optional
list if programming was waived).
Extra courses from the core list
(beyond the required 3) can also
be counted as optional courses.
Three of these five required courses
must be taken at the graduate level.
Recommendations
While
the certificate only requires CSCI
1300 (Programming) we strongly recommend
other programming courses, especially
CSCI 2270 (Data Structures), but also
LING 5200 (Computational Corpus Linguistics and
Python Programming), or TLEN 5833. We also recommend
any relevant statistics course, such as SLHS
2100, PSYC 3101, PSYC 5741/5751, or EDUC 5716.
Core
Courses
Students must take three
courses from this core list. At least
two of the three must be outside the
student's home department and college.
Courses in
Speech and Language Technologies
| CSCI 5832 |
Natural Language
Processing |
| CSCI 6302 |
Speech Recognition and Synthesis |
Courses in
Designing and Using Interactive Language
Systems
| CSCI 4402/5402 |
Human Language
Technology Laboratory |
| CSCI 4838/6838 |
User Interface Design and
Evaluation |
Courses in
Human Communication
| SLHS 2010 |
The Science of
Human Communication |
| LING 5030 |
Phonetics |
| LING 5420 |
Morphology and Syntax |
| LING 7800 |
Advanced Computational Linguistics |
Optional
Courses
Students must take at
least one other course from this optional
list (or two if the programming requirement
was waived)
| COMM 4/5510 |
Seminar (depends
on topic, with permission of
instructor) |
| COMM 6200 |
Seminar on Communication (depends
on topic; with permission of
instructor) |
| CSCI 5582 |
Artificial Intelligence |
| CSCI 6622 |
Advanced Machine Learning |
| CSCI 3104/6454 |
Algorithms |
| CSCI 3434/5444 |
Theory of Computation |
| CSCI 3155 |
Principles of Programming Languages |
| CSCI 5535 |
Fundamental Concepts of Programming
Languages |
| |
| ECEN 5622 |
Information Theory and Coding |
| ECEN 4242 |
Communication Theory |
| ECEN 5612 |
Noise and Random Processes |
| ECEN 5652 |
Detection and Extraction of
Signals from Noise |
| |
| LING 5200 |
Introduction to Computational
Corpus Linguistics |
| LING 6450 |
Syntactic Analysis |
| LING 7420 |
Syntactic Theory |
| LING 7430 |
Semantic Theory |
| |
| PHIL 2440 |
Symbolic Logic |
| PHIL 4440/5440 |
Mathematical Logic |
| |
| PSYC 5185 |
Cognitive Processes in Reading |
| PSYC 4165 |
Psychology of Perception |
| PSYC 7051 |
Psychology Research Practicum |
| PSYC/LING 5300 |
Psycholinguistics |
| PSYC/LING/SLHS 4560 |
Language Development |
| |
| SLHS 5272 |
Augmentative Alternative Communication:
Theory and Use |
| SLHS 7202 |
Motor Control and Speech Production |
| SLHS 6006 |
Advanced Hearing Science |
| SLHS 6106 |
Experimental Phonetics 1 |
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