European Masters Program in
Language and Communication Technologies
http://www.inf.unibz.it/mcs/lct/
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Raffaella Bernardi ([email protected])
What are LCT?
LCT are information technologies specialized to deal
with the most complex information medium:
Natural Language
NL involves:
 Text
 Speech
 Knowledge
 Gesture, Facial Expressions, …
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Real life application:
Speech Recognition & Cross-Language
Technologies
Speech Recognition and Cross-Language Technologies help
communication between speakers of different languages
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EM in LCT:
Teaching Goal & Job Opportunities
As the role of computers increases in our daily lives, businesses and
industry are seeking experts who can improve the nexus
between humans and machines. Hence, we aim at giving
students competences in both
 Language Technologies: formal linguistics (morphology,
syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourses, speech..), applied
linguistics (nlp, corpora, question answering, dialogs,
summarization)
 Computer Science: CS foundations (formal languages and
algorithms, programming languages, logic, theory of
computing,..), applied CS (digital libraries, semantic web,
databases, ontologies)
Interdisciplinary curriculum by integrating Faculties of Science and
Faculties of Humanities/Linguistics.
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FUB: Study Plan in LCT
Semester 1
Theory of Computing
Advanced Statistics
Data Warehousing and Data Mining
Programming Languages
Introduction to AI
Text Processing
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ECTS Semester 2
8 Human Computer Interaction
4 Advanced Algorithm
8 Digital Libraries
4 Computational Linguistics
4 Computational Logic
4 Knowledge Representation
Introduction to Linguistics
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Second year: projects in Research Centers (up to 15 ECTS) and courses
at partner universities on LT topics:
Machine translation, information and knowledge representation,
information retrieval, question answering, speech recognition and
generation, models of human language processing and understanding,
psycholinguistics
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EM in LCT: Partner Universities
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Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and
Physics, Czech Republic
Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen, Faculty of Arts,
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Copenhagen Business School, Department of Computational
Linguistics, Denmark
Roskilde University, Faculty of Computer Science, Denmark
Saarland University, Faculty of General Linguistics, Department
of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Germany
University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, The Netherlands
University Henri Poincaré, France
University of Nancy 2, France
University of Malta, Faculty of Science, Department of Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence
Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities, The Netherlands
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Academia-Industry:
“Strategic Advisory Board”
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indicate market directions
supervise students during their courses, projects or thesis writing
participate in yearly discussions of the study plan
help the consortium evaluate the results of quality assessment
mechanisms
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ATILF (Laboratoire d'Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue
Francaise), Francia
CELI, Language and Information Technology, Italia
CLS (Centre for Language Studies), Italia
DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), Germania
IBM (IBM), Danimarca
ITC-irst (Center for Scientific and Technological Research), Italia
LORIA (Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications), Francia
ScanSoft (ScanSoft BVBA), Belgio
XEROX (Xerox Research Center Europe), Francia
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Do you want to know more?
… Come to the next LCT events!
 Oct 3rd: getting to know each other meeting with
representatives of the research centers (EURAC, ITC-irst, Centre
of Language Studies). 17:00-18:00 E411
 Oct 18th: tutorial on Question and Answering. Bonnie Webber
(University of Edinburgh)
 Oct 19th: first LCT Colloquium
 Oct 23rd: Student Symposium
If you want to be kept informed on these events:
 Give me your e-mail now,
For further information:
 Send me an email ([email protected])
 Visit the LCT web pages and keep an eye on the link for current
students
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