What kind of courses should I take to prepare to study computational linguistics in graduate school?
These days computational linguistics draws on computer science, linguistics and statistics, and good computational linguists are reasonably proficient in all of these. You don’t need to be an expert in all of these areas (after all, you will be trained in graduate school), but you should try to take enough substantive courses in each of these areas to demonstrate that you have ability in these areas. And if your university or college offers a computational linguistics course, you should definitely take it. There’s no fixed set of prerequisites required to apply to a computational linguistics program. It’s hard to imagine anyone doing research in computational linguistics without having some programming skills (this is often the greatest hurdle for linguists that would like to become computational linguists). These days mathematical skills (say, in statistics and probability theory) are also very important. You should also take one or two courses in linguistics (say, syntax) or computat
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