Comparing Computational Linguistics PhD programs

[SomGuy13]

Hi,

As offers are beginning to go out for this admissions cycle, I am faced with a decision and am looking for insight from anyone who knows. I have both academic and industry research experience in Computational Linguistics and NLP. My research interests address linguistics with NLP, and I fit somewhere between CS and Linguistics departments. I now have to decide between offers from a couple CS departments, and Linguistics departments at University of Washington, University of Colorado or University of Illinois.

I am wondering if anyone has insight on the quality of these LING departments w.r.t. Computational linguistics (My areas are related to morphology/phonology, and machine learning, and I am interested in cross-lingual, linguistic typology research that intersects with NLP). My worry in joining a LING department is difficulty of finding support for the CS/match side of my interests, as well as job prospects after PhD when compared to a PhD in CS.

On the other hand, I am wondering if anyone has advice on choosing between a CS vs LING department in which to do my PhD.

Any thoughts/opinions are greatly appreciated!

 

-SomeGuy

[SomGuy13]

Perhaps "None" is also a good option :)