Awesome Academic NLP Research Labs

A curated directory of academic NLP research labs worldwide. Entries link to official lab webpages and are ordered alphabetically by university name, without implying any ranking. Labs are grouped by geographic region, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. Contributions are welcome.

Regional Coverage

• United States
• Canada
• United Kingdom
• Europe
• Asia-Pacific
• Middle East

United States

University	Lab Name	Webpage	Other Links
Arizona State University	ASU NLP	Link
Boston University	tinlab	Link
Brandeis University	BLT Lab	Link
Brown University	Brown NLP	Link
Carnegie Mellon University	ChangeLing Lab	Link
Carnegie Mellon University	CMU LTI (Institute)	Link
Carnegie Mellon University	LLab	Link
Columbia University	Columbia NLP	Link
Cornell University	Cornell NLP	Link
Duke University	DukeNLP	Link
Emory University	Emory NLP	Link
Georgetown University	Corpling Lab	Link
Georgetown University	GUCL	Link	x
Georgetown University	GU-HLT	Link
Georgetown University	NERT Lab	Link
George Mason University	George Mason NLP	Link
George Mason University	GMU Computational Linguistics		x
Harvard University	Harvard NLP	Link
Howard University	Howard NLP	Link
Indiana University Bloomington	IU NLP Lab	Link
Johns Hopkins University	JHU CLSP (Institute)	Link
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MIT NLP	Link
Montclair State University	Montclair NLP	Link
New York University	NYU ML2	Link
Ohio State University	CLLT	Link
Ohio State University	CoCoMo Lab	Link
Ohio State University	OSU NLP	Link
Pennsylvania State University	Penn State NLP	Link
Portland State University	Port NLP	Link
Princeton University	Princeton NLP	Link
Purdue University	Purdue NLP	Link
Rutgers University	Rutgers Comp Ling Lab	Link
Stanford University	Stanford NLP	Link
Stevens Institute of Technology University	Stevens NLP	Link
Stony Brook University	Stony Brook NLP	Link
Texas A&M University	Texas A&M NLP	Link	Ruihong Huang
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago	Speech and Language Lab	Link
University at Buffalo	CaLiCo Lab	Link
University of Arizona	CLU Lab	Link
University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley NLP	Link	Getting Started in NLP Research
University of California, Davis	Linguistic Mechanisms Lab	Link
University of California, Davis	Morgan Lab	Link
University of California, Irvine	UCI NLP	Link
University of California, Los Angeles	UCLA NLP	Link	GitHub
University of California, San Diego	UCSD NLP	Link
University of California, Santa Barbara	UCSB NLP	Link
University of Chicago	Communication & Intelligence Group	Link
University of Cincinnati	CincyNLP Lab	Link
University of Colorado Boulder	Boulder NLP	Link
University of Florida	Compling@UF	Link	Zoey Liu
University of Florida	NLP&C Lab	Link
University of Illinois Chicago	UIC NLP	Link
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	UIUC NLP	Link
University of Maryland College Park	CLIP Lab	Link	x
University of Maryland, Baltimore County	UMBC NLP	Link
University of Maryland, College Park	UMD NLP	Link
University of Massachusetts Amherst	UMass NLP	Link
University of Michigan	UMich LIT	Link	Poster Gallery
University of Minnesota	Minnesota NLP	Link
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	UNC NLP	Link
University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame NLP	Link
University of Pennsylvania	UPenn NLP	Link	x
University of Pittsburgh	PittNAIL	Link
University of Rochester	FACTS.lab	Link
University of Southern California	USC NLP	Link
University of South Florida	USF NLP	Link
University of Texas at Austin	UT Austin NLP	Link
University of Utah	Utah NLP	Link
University of Virginia	ILP Lab	Link
University of Washington	UW NLP	Link
Washington University in St. Louis	WashU NLP	Link
Yale University	CLAY Lab	Link
Yale University	Yale NLP	Link	x

Canada

University	Lab Name	Webpage	Other Links
McGill University	McGill NLP	Link
Mila – Quebec AI Institute	MilaNLP	Link
Simon Fraser University	SFU NLP	Link
University of Alberta	ALT Lab	Link
Université de Montréal	Montréal NLP (RALI)	Link
University of British Columbia	UBC NLP	Link
University of Toronto	UofT NLP	Link
University of Waterloo	CompLING Lab	Link
University of Waterloo	Waterloo NLP	Link

United Kingdom

University	Lab Name	Webpage	Other Links
Cardiff University	Cardiff NLP	Link	GitHub
Heriot-Watt University	HWU NLP	Link
Imperial College London	Imperial NLP	Link
Lancaster University	UCREL NLP	Link	x
University College London	UCL NLP	Link
University of Cambridge	Cambridge NLP	Link
University of Cambridge	Cambridge LTL	Link	x
University of Edinburgh	Edinburgh NLP	Link	GitHub
University of Manchester	NLP & Text Mining Group	Link
University of Oxford	OxNLP	Link
University of Sheffield	Sheffield NLP	Link	x

Europe

University	Lab Name	Webpage	Other Links
Athens University of Economics and Business	AUEB NLP	Link	x
ETH Zurich	LRE Lab	Link
EPFL	EPFL NLP	Link
Ghent University	UGent NLP	Link	x
Heidelberg University	Heidelberg NLP	Link	x
IDSIA	IDSIA NLP	Link	x
ILC-CNR	ItaliaNLP	Link	x
IT University of Copenhagen	ITU Copenhagen NLP	Link	x
LMU Munich	Munich AI & NLP Research Lab	Link
Middle East Technical University	METU NLP	Link
Pompeu Fabra University	LaSTUS @ TALN	Link
Saarland University	LaCoCo Lab	Link
Sapienza University of Rome	Sapienza NLP	Link
Technical University of Darmstadt	UKP Lab	Link
University of Amsterdam	Amsterdam NLPxDH	Link
University of Amsterdam	ILLC	Link
University of Bamberg	Bamberg NLP	Link
University of Copenhagen	Cope NLU	Link
University of Groningen	GroNLP	Link	x
University of Helsinki	Helsinki NLP	Link	x
University of Milan	Milan NLP Group	Link
University of Naples "L'Orientale"	UniOr NLP	Link	x
University of Oslo	Language Technology Group	Link
University of Stuttgart	IMS (Institute for NLP)	Link
University of Turku	TurkuNLP	Link
University of Zurich	Department of Computational Linguistics	Link
Utrecht University	CS-NLP	Link
Uppsala University	Uppsala NLP	Link	GitHub
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	CLTL	Link

Asia-Pacific

University	Lab Name	Webpage	Other Links
Chinese University of Hong Kong	CUHK Language Processing Lab	Link
Hanyang University	HYU NLP	Link
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	HKUST NLP	Link
IIIT Hyderabad	LTRC	Link
IIT Bombay	CFILT	Link
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences	ICT/CAS NLP	Link
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	KAIST NLP*CL	Link
Monash University	MonashNLP Lab	Link
Nanyang Technological University	NTU-NLP	Link
Nara Institute of Science and Technology	NAIST NLP	Link
National University of Singapore	NUS NLP	Link
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University	NYCU NLP	Link
Peking University	PKUNLP-ICLER	Link
Pohang University of Science and Technology	POSTECH NLP	Link
Seoul National University	SNU NLP	Link
Tianjin University	TJUNLP	Link
Tohoku University	Tohoku NLP	Link
Tsinghua University	Tsinghua NLP	Link
Ulsan National Institute Science and Technology	UNIST NLP	Link
University of Hong Kong	HKU NLP Group	Link
University of Melbourne	UniMelb NLP	Link
University of Sydney	USYD NLP Group	Link
University of Technology Sydney	UTS NLP Group	Link
VinUniversity	VinUniversity	Link	x
Westlake University	WestlakeNLP	Link

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Middle East

University	Lab Name	Webpage	Other Links
Bar-Ilan University	BIU NLP	Link	x
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	BGU NLP	Link
Hamad Bin Khalifa University	ALT @ QCRI	Link
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	HUJI NLP		x
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence	Aram Lab	Link
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence	NLP @ MBZUAI	Link
New York University Abu Dhabi	CAMeL Lab	Link
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	Technion NLP	Link
Tel Aviv University	TAU Computational Linguistics Lab	Link

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Contributing

Please read the contributing.md before submitting a pull request.

Citation

If you find this repository useful, please consider citing it as:

@misc{sarwar2026awesome-nlp-labs,
  author       = {Sarwar, Nobin},
  title        = {{Awesome Academic NLP Research Labs}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/smsnobin77/awesome-academic-nlp-labs}},
  note         = {GitHub repository}
}

Acknowledgments

This repository benefited from the following resources:

• Computational Linguistics and NLP Research in North American Linguistics Departments — Prof. Nathan Schneider (Georgetown University) - Link
• Top Natural Language Processing Labs in Academia - Link

License

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