Linguistics > NPL career?

I am a linguist, translator, and copy editor looking to move my career into natural language processing instead. I have no computer science background. What would you suggest as some steps to take, both now and in the future, as I plan out my career? It looks like I am going to need to learn Python, but I'm not 100% sure, and there's so little established in such a new field.

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