> As to your personal experience: That's sad, you merely seem to have ended up in the wrong department / with the wrong professors. It was a while ago (graduat

> As to your personal experience: That's sad, you merely seem to have ended up in the wrong department / with the wrong professors. It was a while ago (graduated in 2005), but I think linguistics was under the English or anthropology department (I do remember the building was in the liberal sciences area). While I saw a clear connection between linguistics and NLP, I got the sense that the focus was to understand culture through language, and less about understanding language and communication itself. > It's worth giving it another try! I'd like to, but in the ~15 years since I've graduated it feels like the entire computational linguistics field has grown so dramatically that many of the problems I was originally interested in have been more-or-less developed (e.g., segmenting words into their phonemes for machine learning models, building grammar trees). Today, I'm more likely to grab one of the many libraries that do all this magic under the hood while I remain ignorant.