Top Natural Language Processing Labs in Academia

By Andrea Yip on May 5, 2021

 

We’ve compiled a list of the leading Natural Language Processing (NLP) Labs across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom that are based out of academic institutions. We hope this is a helpful resource and inspiration for your own NLP work.

If there are labs that we’ve missed, please let us know so we can add them to this list. Email us at hello[@]phaseai.com.

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Canada

Academic Institution	Lab Name & Link
Concordia University	Computational Linguistics at Concordia (CLAC)
Dalhousie University	Dalhousie Natural Language Processing and Data Mining Group (DNLP)
Université de Montréal	Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique (RALI)
University of British Columbia	Natural Language Processing Group
University of Ottawa	Natural Language Processing Lab
University of Toronto	Computational Linguistics
University of Waterloo	Natural Language Processing Lab
McGill University	Reasoning and Learning Lab (RLLAB)
Simon Fraser University	SFU Natural Language Laboratory (Natlang)
York University	Research Lab for Informational Retrieval and Knowledge Management

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United States

Academic Institution	Lab Name & Link
Columbia University	NLP @ CU
MIT	MIT NLP Group
Monclair State University	Natural Language Processing Laboratory
Penn State University	PSU NLP LAB
Princeton University	Princeton NLP
Stanford University	The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group
University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)
University of California, Santa Barbara	UC Santa Barbara Natural Language Processing Group
University of Central Florida	UCF Natural Language Processing Group
University of Colorado, Boulder	Research Lab for Informational Retrieval and Knowledge Management
University of Delaware	NLP/AI Laboratory
University of Illinois Chicago	UIC NLP
University of Maryland	Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP)
University of North Carolina	Multimodal Understanding, Reasoning, and Generation for Language Lab (MURGe-Lab)
University of Texas	Biomedical Natural Language Processing Lab
University of Washington	UW Natural Language Processing (UW NLP)
Virginia Commonwealth University	MCINNES Lab: Natural Language Processing
Yale University	Language, Information, and Learning at Yale (LILY)

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United Kingdom

Academic Institution	Lab Name & Link
University of Cambridge	Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) Research Group
University of Oxford	The Computational Linguistics Group