Thread: Brown vs UCSB
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Old 04-03-2008, 02:26 PM   #9 (permalink)
CalmLogic
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I think I should wait JHU's decision.
Yes, definitely.

BTW:

JHU.edu has more hits for NLP and IR (which may be a sign but is complicated by number of students, etc.):

site - Google Search
site:brown.edu "natural language processing" - Google Search
site:usc.edu "natural language processing" - Google Search

site:jhu.edu "information retrieval" - Google Search
site:brown.edu "information retrieval" - Google Search
site:usc.edu "information retrieval" - Google Search

(JHU has 14,275 graduate students while Brown has only 2,204.)

Brown and JHU each have some links here:
Statistical NLP / corpus-based computational linguistics resources

The links for Brown are:
Brown CS - CS241
Learning Dynamical Systems
LDC Catalog

http://nlp.cs.jhu.edu/~rflorian/fntb (dead)
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~brill/RBT1_14.tar.Z (source code from 1994)


In favor of Brown historically:

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The original, unannotated Brown corpus, a balanced sampling of English language usage, was collected in the 60s (long before BLLIP) by Brown linguists Francis and Kucera.

BLLIP Software and Corpora Resources
Brown Corpus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
site:http://www.aclweb.org/ "brown corpus" - Google Search

Anyway, have you checked out the course websites? Since you are seeking an MS degree, that could be a decisive factor.

Lastly, Brown has 2 links here while there are none for JHU:

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

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