Lori Levin, Director/Advisor
levin@andew.cmu.edu
Location: 6719 Gates Hillman Center

www.lti.cs.cmu.edu

Language Technologies Minor

Available to non-SCS students

Students in our Language Technologies Minor program have the opportunity to build on their undergraduate program requirements not only by learning more about this burgeoning field but also have the opportunity to do hands-on project work directed by one of our world famous faculty.  Please feel free to reach out to Undergraduate Program Director Lori Levin if you would like to talk about this minor.

Overview

With the recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), Human language technologies have become an increasingly central component not only of the field of computer science, but also a suite of key enabling technologies for work in every field. The work of our LTI faculty is impacting the human-critical fields of Education, Medicine, Law, and Finance. Just as a few examples, Dialog systems/chatbots, Information retrieval in many forms, machine translation and speech technologies are used daily by the general public. The LTI prepares students for this world by offering a minor that gives you the opportunity to not only learn about language technologies, but to also apply that knowledge through a directed project and prepares you for lucrative career options, either in this field or just about any other.

Admissions

Students interested in earning a minor in language technologies must apply for admission no later than September 30 of their senior year. An admission decision will usually be made within one month. Students may petition the LTI undergraduate program director to be admitted to the minor earlier or later in their undergraduate careers. To apply, contact the program's director.

Curriculum

Prerequisites

The Language Technologies Minor requires that students complete one core course and their choice of three elective courses of at least 9 units each. The electives can be chosen from a specific set of stand-alone courses listen below. Students may petition to substitute any other LTI course.  In addition to the four courses, students in the Minor are required either to do an undergraduate research project for at least 9 units or take an additional elective course. 

Core COURSE REQUIREMENT

Electives (choose 3):

Project - Choose Applicable Project Course

Double Counting of Courses

Students may double count 11-324 Human Language for Artificial Intelligence and 80-180 Introduction to Linguistics toward any other major or minor.