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Motivation Letter MSC Computational Linguistics PDF

Shawon Ashraf is applying for the M.Sc. Computational Linguistics program at the University of Stuttgart. He graduated from North South University in Bangladesh with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering. During his studies, he developed an interest in intelligent systems and artificial intelligence through courses in machine learning, fuzzy systems, and computer vision. He has explored computational linguistics and natural language processing on his own as well. For his master's degree, he wants to focus on making computers more accessible for people with disabilities by developing systems that can understand complex human speech and language to overcome ambiguity.

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Motivation Letter MSC Computational Linguistics PDF

Shawon Ashraf is applying for the M.Sc. Computational Linguistics program at the University of Stuttgart. He graduated from North South University in Bangladesh with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering. During his studies, he developed an interest in intelligent systems and artificial intelligence through courses in machine learning, fuzzy systems, and computer vision. He has explored computational linguistics and natural language processing on his own as well. For his master's degree, he wants to focus on making computers more accessible for people with disabilities by developing systems that can understand complex human speech and language to overcome ambiguity.

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I, Shawon Ashraf, want to express my interest in applying for the study program M.Sc.

Computational Linguistics offered by University of Stuttgart through this letter of motivation.

I have graduated from North South University, Bangladesh with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Computer Science and Engineering (BS CSE) in October of 2018. While I majored in Computer
Science, my curriculum also included cross-discipline coursework in Electrical Engineering,
Liberal Sciences, Environmental Science, Calculus, Statistics and Probability – all of which were
part of the requirement to obtain my degree. Apart from basic Computer Science courses,
which included but were not limited to Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms,
Computer Networks, Database Systems, I also studied Machine Learning, Theory of Fuzzy
Systems, Computer Graphics and Digital Image Processing as my elective courses. Through the
aforementioned courses, I developed a keen interest in Intelligent Systems, their
implementation and their impact on our lives. This interest led me to explore different areas in
the study of Intelligent Systems and Artificial Intelligence. While I have been exposed to the
field of Computer Vision mostly due to my coursework, I have been exploring fields related to
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing on my own, through reading
journals and research papers online and via MOOCs on Udemy, Coursera and Edx. Despite their
goals and purposes, all intelligent system related studies share the common mechanism, which
is to make the computer understand us human beings better and in return making our lives
easier.

As mentioned above, my underground thesis was based on computer vision techniques where
my group developed a Convolutional Neural Network based image classifier system using
transfer learning on top of Inception V3 that can differentiate between rotten and fresh fruits.
Also, as a part of my coursework in Theory of Fuzzy Systems, I worked on an Adaptive Neuro
Fuzzy Inference System based TV Series Recommendation system.

Besides my academic responsibilities, I had been involved in Microsoft Student Partners


program as a Campus Lead and in NSU ACM Student Chapter as a Chapter Officer, carrying out
the role of Vice-Chair. During my involvement with them, I have assisted my colleagues in
arranging training programs for students at the university, organizing seminars adorned by
experts from the industry and the academia. Post-graduation, I have worked for one month as a
Software Engineer at Cefalo Bangladesh Ltd where I learnt more about solving real life
problems with software, the essence of teamwork and self-organization. Putting that
knowledge into use, I have been working as a freelance iOS Application developer since I left
the aforementioned job.

I hail from a developing mid-income country, where technology is slowly gaining its
stranglehold. While the developed countries are making the most out of AI powered
technologies and enhancing the lifestyle of their citizens, developing countries like ours are
lagging behind due to lack of qualified human resources in this area. This is where I want to
assert the reasoning behind my decision to apply for computational linguistics and not some
other discipline for a master’s degree. To be precise, I want to work on making computers more
accessible for people who don’t speak the language of the computer, people who have
disabilities and therefore cannot use computers like some average person would do. There are
solutions out there which let people use computers with their voice. These require the
computer system to infer commands from speech or written language. Although these systems
are promising for ensuring greater accessibility, they are not developed yet to understand
complex human speech or language concepts. If we follow the Chomsky Hierarchy and inspect
the properties of formal languages, we will see that human languages have their fair share of
ambiguity. To put things into perspective, figuring out the ambiguity and infer a probable
meaning is a challenge in itself. Despite years of research and efforts put into the development
of Computational Linguistics, defeating this ambiguity is still a challenge – which I want to focus
on as part of my work in my master’s studies.

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