If you have taken the NLP course, you can work in many interesting areas that have practical applications e.g. improving the performance of a Named Entity recog

If you have taken the NLP course, you can work in many interesting areas that have practical applications e.g. improving the performance of a Named Entity recognizer for web data, automatic classification of web pages into predefined categories, natural language parsing for grammar transfer in translation etc. You should also learn some tools of the trade: regular expressions, machine learning, statistical methods, neural networks, minimum classification error training etc.