Masters in Language Technology at the University of Gothenburg

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There are still places remaining for Autumn 2011 on our Masters in Language Technology in Gothenburg. Students who wish to apply can contact us directly at info@cling.gu.se. General information can be found at
http://www.flov.gu.se/mlt.

The Masters in Language Technology (MLT) at the University of Gothenburg is an international masters programme which can lead to either a one-year or a two-year degree. Deadline for applications in the current round for Swedish and EU students is 15th April, 2011. For further information see http://www.flov.gu.se/english/education/masters-second-cycle/mlt/.

Students are taught by researchers who are engaged in developing the latest technologies within the University of Gothenburg's priority research area in language technology at our Centre for Language Technology (CLT, http://www.clt.gu.se/), a collaboration between four departments at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology (Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, Department of Swedish, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Applied Information Technology). We encourage students to work on their masters projects in one of CLT's three labs: dialogue technology lab, grammar technology lab, and text technology lab.

Language technology research and teaching in Gothenburg ischaracterized by a focus on the contribution of theoretical andrule-based approaches appropriately combined with statisticaltechniques. Students therefore receive instruction in linguistictheory as applied to language technology as well as current approachesto language technology. The programme draws students from a widevariety of backgrounds including linguistics, computer science,cognitive science and philosophy. The programme is heavily orientedtowards practical programming techniques (currently using theprogramming language Python) but we do not require that studentsentering the programme necessarily have a background in programming.They should, however, be prepared to learn programming techniques inan intensive introduction provided at the beginning of the programme.

Robin Cooper
Professor of Computational Linguistics
Director, Graduate School of Language Technology
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
University of Gothenburg