Overview The Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware was awarded five National Science Foundation graduate traineeships in the area of natural language human-computer interfaces.
Opportunities exist for summer research at industrial sites and international research laboratories.
Current research includes grammatical formalisms, parsing, understanding, generation, discourse, collaborative dialogue systems, plan recognition, user modeling, and augmentative communication. In addition, faculty from the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Psychology have related interests in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, phonology, and text processing. The Department also maintains an affiliation with the Rehabilitation Engineering Center of the A.I.duPont Institute, which pursues applied research on the development of communication aids for disabled individuals. Several faculty from the A.I.duPont Institute hold research faculty appointments in the Computer Science Department. These graduate traineeships are restricted by NSF to United States citizens and permanent residents.