- NLP impact factor: very high
- Notable NLP faculty: Noah Smith, Jaime Carbonell, Alon Lavie, Carolyn Rosé, Lori Levin, Roni Rosenfeld
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NLP Research: Another multi-faceted school. Lots of work on different NLP areas: machine translation, summarization, interactive dialog systems, information retrieval and, most importantly, machine learning. Noah’s group produces some of the best work at the
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URL:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nasmith/n…, http://www.ark.cs.cmu.edu/
- NLP impact factor: very, very high
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Notable NLP faculty: Jason Eisner, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Chris Callison-Burch, Mark Dredze. It’s a huge list; see here:
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NLP research: JHU has two big centers that do NLP research: the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) and the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence established by the US Govt. (CoE). They do research in almost all aspects of NLP but machine
learning, machine translation, parsing and speech figure most prominently. Until recently, they also had Fred Jelinek who basically pioneered the field of automated speech recognition as it exists today. He passed away last month. They have a fantastic and
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URL:
http://web.jhu.edu/HLTCOE/People…, http://clsp.jhu.edu/
- NLP impact factor: very high
- Notable NLP faculty: Arvind Joshi, Ani Nenkova, Mitch Marcus, Fernando Pereira, Ben Taskar
- NLP research: Lots of parsing: home of LTAG, Penn Treebank. Ani works on multi-document summarization. Lots of machine learning too. Prof. Joshi is an Association for Computational Linguistics lifetime achievement award winner.
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URL:
http://nlp.cis.upenn.edu/
- NLP impact factor: very high
- Notable NLP faculty: Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher Manning,
- NLP research: Jurafsky literally wrote the textbook on NLP. Almost every topic you can imagine. The group responsible for creating probably the most used syntactic parser and POS-tagger in the field today.
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URL:
http://nlp.stanford.edu
- NLP impact factor: very high
- Notable NLP faculty: Several really big names; Kathy McKeown, Julia Hirschberg, Michael Collins, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, Mona Diab and Becky Passonneau.
- NLP research: A lot of summarization, information extraction and machine translation research. Julia’s group mostly works on speech stuff. Michael Collins recently joined this group from MIT. He works on Machine Translation and Parsing.
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URL:
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/…
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- NLP impact factor: very High
- Notable NLP faculty: Dan Roth, Julia Hockenmaier and ChengXiang Zhai
- NLP research: Machine Learning for NLP, BioNLP and Multilingual Information Retrieval.
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URL:
http://nlp.cs.illinois.edu/
- NLP impact factor: very high
- Notable NLP faculty: Lillian Lee, Thorsten Joachims and Claire Cardie.
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NLP research: Lots of very interesting work in machine learning driven NLP. Lillian does some very off-the-beaten-path research with her students like movie review classification, sentiment analysis etc. Also, one of the pioneers in vector machines (Thorsten)
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URL:
https://confluence.cornell.edu/d…
University of Southern California
- NLP impact factor: very high
- Notable NLP faculty: USC has the Information Sciences Institute which houses some of the most brilliant NLP researchers around: Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, David Chiang, Liang Huang and Ed Hove.
- NLP research: They do research on almost every conceivable NLP topic. However, some of the big areas are machine translation, decipherment and information extraction.
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URL:
http://nlg.isi.edu/
University of Maryland, College Park
- NLP impact factor: very high
- Notable NLP faculty: Philip Resnik, Jimmy Lin, Hal Daume, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Bonnie Dorr, Mary Harper
- NLP Research: Like JHU, they work on a lot of things. Big areas are machine translation, topic modeling, machine learning, information retrieval and large-scale NLP using hadoop.
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URL:
https://wiki.umiacs.umd.edu/clip… - (Disclaimer: I graduated with a PhD from Maryland)
- NLP impact factor: high
- Notable NLP faculty: Mari Ostendorf, Jeff Bilmes, Katrin Kirchoff and Luke Zettlemoyer.
- NLP research: The research is generally skewed towards speech and parsing but they also do general machine learning and they have recently started working on machine translation.
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URL:
https://ssli.ee.washington.edu/
- NLP impact factor: very high
- Notable NLP faculty: Philipp Koehn, Mirella Lapata, Mark Steedman, Miles Osborne, Steve Renals, Bonnie Webber, Ewan Klein.
- NLP research: they do almost everything but the work I am most familiar with is on statistical machine translation and machine learning based approaches to discourse coherence.
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URL:
http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/