The Corpling lab <https://gucorpling.org/corpling/>  in the Department of 
Linguistics <https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/>  at Georgetown University 
(Washington, DC), directed by Amir Zeldes <https://gucorpling.org/amir/> , is 
looking for qualified candidates for a PhD in Computational Linguistics, to 
start in Fall 2026. Applicants will be most competitive for the PhD program if 
they have prior experience in Linguistics, Computer Science, or a related 
field; are proficient in basic programming; and articulate a clear area of 
research specialization that they wish to pursue, which aligns with research at 
the lab. Georgetown also offers a 2-year MS in Computational Linguistics for 
students wishing to gain a foundation in the field. The application deadline 
for the PhD program is December 1, 2025 – see details here:
https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/programs/apply/

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The lab focuses on research about computational models of discourse, annotated 
corpus resource creation and Natural Language Processing, especially for 
low-resource languages and applications in the Digital Humanities. Some recent 
research topics have included:

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*       Understanding relative salience in discourse using LLMs
*       Modeling discourse relations expressing causality, argumentation and 
temporality
*       The study of different types of anaphoric relations between entities 
and events
*       Creating and benchmarking models for multilingual discourse 
understanding
*       Building datasets and tools for under-resourced and historical 
languages (especially for Coptic <https://copticscriptorium.org/> )

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For more on our research see the lab’s website and Amir’s homepage linked above.

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Students in the Computational Linguistics program benefit from a range of 
courses in NLP and computational modeling techniques, as well as foundational 
courses in Linguistics. Applicants must hold at least a bachelor’s degree by 
Fall 2026. PhD students in the Department (domestic as well as international) 
benefit from a 5-year funding package including a stipend, tuition scholarship 
and health insurance. For questions please contact [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> .

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