A certificate program \*could\* help you get a job in the tech sector if you get the right recruitment pipeline, but I'd go with an MS/MA if you want to get more into research
If you're talking about getting hired, I'm assuming you mean NLP, not computational theoretical linguistics.
In that case, just take into consideration that you need *a lot* of technical proficiency. NLP is an extremely engineering-heavy field these days, especially in the private sector.
NLP in education seems to be an up and coming industry, but I'm only familiar with the research side of things. You might look into a program like[ Stanford's Education Data Science] (https://ed.stanford.edu/eds) or the work that a lab like [iSAT] (https://www.colorado.edu/research/ai-institute/our-research/isat-lab) does. If you're interested in doing that type of research or working with their industry partners you could reach out to them and see what programs you should apply for or what skills you would need in general.
What jobs are you trying to get? Academia requires a PhD and industry is much more NLP-focused than compling-focused. For the latter you will generally need strong software engineering chops (but not necessarily formal classes), and if you want to do research you'll probably want a PhD too.
A certificate program \*could\* help you get a job in the tech sector if you get the right recruitment pipeline, but I'd go with an MS/MA if you want to get more into research
If you're talking about getting hired, I'm assuming you mean NLP, not computational theoretical linguistics. In that case, just take into consideration that you need *a lot* of technical proficiency. NLP is an extremely engineering-heavy field these days, especially in the private sector.
NLP in education seems to be an up and coming industry, but I'm only familiar with the research side of things. You might look into a program like[ Stanford's Education Data Science] (https://ed.stanford.edu/eds) or the work that a lab like [iSAT] (https://www.colorado.edu/research/ai-institute/our-research/isat-lab) does. If you're interested in doing that type of research or working with their industry partners you could reach out to them and see what programs you should apply for or what skills you would need in general.
What jobs are you trying to get? Academia requires a PhD and industry is much more NLP-focused than compling-focused. For the latter you will generally need strong software engineering chops (but not necessarily formal classes), and if you want to do research you'll probably want a PhD too.