Advice about acquiring employable skills in NLP, (computational) linguistics, programming

Hello,

Hope this message finds you well. Any assistance and advice would be greatly appreciated about linguistics, NLP and computing. I am passionate about linguistics. I do not have formal education in this area. An unrelated bachelor's degree. My heart is in using linguistics in my professional life. If this is not the correct channel to ask my questions, could you please point me to the correct channel for my inquiry? Thank you so much for the help.

1) How …

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