<aside> <img src="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" alt="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Welcome to consolidated admissions homepage of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) .

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<aside> 📣 We’re hiring PhD students

Want to join? Scroll down to learn more about our group and check out some useful resources, upcoming events, and more!

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Table of contents

<aside> 💡 Tip: The material for this webpage is consolidated from various materials available across CLSP website for easy access to all data at one place. The credits go to original authors.

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`Who are we?`

The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) is an interdisciplinary research and educational center focused on the science and technology of language and speech.

<aside> ➡️ Within its field, CLSP is recognized as one of the largest and most influential academic research centers in the world. The center conducts research across a broad spectrum of fundamental and applied topics including but not limited to:

Speech processing: recognition, language modeling, biologically inspired speech perception, robust recognition
Natural language processing: parsing, semantics, information extraction, morphology, phonology, sentiment
Machine translation: syntax-based and phrase-based translation, lexicon induction
Machine learning: semi-supervised learning, graphical models, Bayesian methods, large-scale learning, transfer learning
Information retrieval: large scale retrieval, cross-language retrieval
Statistics: computational statistics, statistical pattern recognition, statistical inference for high-dimensional and graph data, information theory </aside>

It is home to over sixty researchers, including faculty, research scientists, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates drawn from various departments. You can read more about our faculty on our official homepage (It also includes links to their research)

`How can I apply?`

CLSP is a multi-disciplinary interest group of faculty and students who work together across department of cognitive science, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and mathematical sciences. Students ordinarily join by applying to one of the following departments:

The departments of Cognitive Science and Psychological and Brain Sciences are also an important part of the language research community here, and you may consider applying there as well if you are primarily interested in linguistics or human language processing.

`FAQs`

We have consolidated all important application related FAQs here.

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JHU CLSP Admission FAQs

This page contains lots of information from various sources including application guidelines and preparation, important advice, and other questions about funding and faculty etc…

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`Events`

Admissions Ask Me Anything — November 15, 2022 9:30 PM (EST) EST

CLSP Application Support Program — November 20, 2022

`More Resources`

Meet the faculty