The Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University is delighted to open its new undergraduate program in Language Engineering, the ideal major for students who are intrigued by both language and the power of computation.<br><br>This new undergraduate program, opening in the Fall of 2018, draws on the Department of Linguistics’ faculty expertise to offer undergraduates a program that provides a foundation of study in linguistic theory and a selection of electives in language engineering, including opportunities for internships with technology companies and governmental organizations.<br><br>Language engineers use their knowledge of linguistics to improve human-computer interactions, such as speech and voice recognition, predictive text, voice-command interfaces, spelling and grammar checkers, machine translation, document summarization, search algorithms and text-to-speech synthesis.