Welcome!

The Stanford NLP Group

Welcome to the Natural Language Processing Group at Stanford University! We are a passionate, inclusive group of students, faculty, postdocs, and research engineers, who work together on algorithms that allow computers to process, generate, and understand human languages. Our interests are very broad, including basic scientific research on computational linguistics and machine learning, everything large language models, practical applications of human language technology, and interdisciplinary work in computational social science, human-centered NLP, and cognitive science. We also develop a wide variety of NLP educational materials and many tools for the community, including Stanza, software which processes text in over 75 human languages, and DSPy, a Python framework for programming rather than prompting LLMs.

The Stanford NLP Group is part of the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), and we also have close associations with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and the Center for Research on Foundation Models. We include members of the Linguistics Department, the Computer Science Department, the Psychology Department, and the Graduate School of Education, among others. You can read about the history of the Stanford NLP Group.

Want to work with us?

• Stanford students: Apply to do research in the Stanford NLP Group
• Non-Stanford students: Apply to Stanford programs in Computer Science or Linguistics.