Natural Language Processing
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Fellowship to provide full tuition for up to 10 CA students to study Natural Language Processing at UC Santa Cruz
Up to ten California-residents will receive full scholarships to pursue a Masters of Science in Natural Language Processing for the 2025-26 academic year.
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UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners
LivePerson, which builds conversational AI, is funding two students’ study of the models that drive chatbots, digital assistants, and more
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CITRIS Tech for Social Good 2021-22 student teams awarded funding
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Santa Cruz has chosen three new student projects and two events for funding through the 2021-22 Tech for Social Good (TSG) Program.
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Baskin Engineering students advance to the finals of this year’s Amazon Alexa Prize Challenge
The Socialbot Grand Challenge competition showcases the students’ mastery of conversational artificial intelligence.
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UCSC partners in institute to explore the role of AI in education
The NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming envisions intelligent computers in classrooms working side-by-side with groups of students.
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Adwait Ratnaparkhi appointed executive director of Natural Language Processing program
The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz has appointed Adwait Ratnaparkhi, former director of voice and natural language understanding R&D at Roku, as executive director of the new master’s degree program in Natural Language Processing.
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UC Santa Cruz launches new graduate program in natural language processing
Based at UCSC’s Silicon Valley Campus, the new professional master’s degree offers training in the burgeoning field of computational processing of speech and text.