Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab
The CLIP Laboratory at the University of Maryland is engaged in designing algorithms and methods that allow computers to effectively and efficiently perform human language-related tasks. CLIP is using computational methods to improve our scientific understanding of the human capacity for language and to explore heterogeneous datasets at scale; for example, how to design an online search engine that searches content across human languages?
CLIP research covers major areas of computational research on language, including deep learning, human-in-the-loop machine learning, multilingual text processing and low-resource languages, machine translation, and summarization. We also study speech retrieval and cross-language information retrieval when performing online searches. Additional challenges include ranking and personalization, computational social science for mental health, data science for finance, data science for social good, computational psycholinguistics, and e-discovery.
With faculty, researchers, and students spanning the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Linguistics, the iSchool, and the Robert H. Smith School of Business, we are a group known not only for high-quality research, but also for intellectual diversity and strong collaborations.
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Recent News

Douglas Oard, a noted expert in information retrieval, has been at the University of Maryland since 1996 and has been an active member of UMIACS since 1998.
UMIACS: New Interim Dean Maintains Strong Ties to UMIACS
August 27, 2025 | UMD | UMIACS StaffDouglas Oard, longtime INFO professor, named interim dean, emphasizes INFO–UMIACS collaboration driving interdisciplinary research

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April 5, 2021 | Hayleigh Moore UMD | UMIACS StaffDouglas Oard, longtime INFO professor, named interim dean, emphasizes INFO–UMIACS collaboration driving interdisciplinary research