The University of Malta is offering an M.Sc. in Language and Computation for graduates wishing to pursue further studies in an interdisciplinary area that brings together technology, language and cognition. It is particularly appropriate for students with a background in one or more of the following areas: language technology, computational linguistics or natural language processing; computing, mathematics or engineering; or linguistics.

The course gives participants a thorough grounding in Human Language Technology (HLT). It provides a solid background in computing and applications of ICT to the development of intelligent systems that communicate using language; a solid background in areas of linguistics relevant to the development of such systems; a strongly multi-disciplinary orientation, through a focus on the overlap between the study of language and intelligent computer systems; practical skills in programming and algorithm design, as well as training in experimental design and data analysis.

Most applications and services involving telecommunication and information processing, such as mobile telephony, social media, and artificial embodied agents, including robots, involve language, and progress in all these areas happens at a staggering pace. Some familiar examples of such applications are Google Search, Google Translate, Apple Siri and recommendation systems on Amazon.

The technology that underlies these applications is based on multi-disciplinary research in language, computation and cognition, referred to as HLT. Specialists in HLT are in great demand by major companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft, and publishing companies such as Elsevier are opening labs for natural language processing.

Students who enroll on this programme benefit from interaction and co-teaching with students and lecturers on the university’s international Erasmus Mundus European Masters in Language and Communication Technology.

For more information call 2340 2151, e-mail hlt.linguistics@um.edu.mt or visit the websites below.

www.um.edu.mt/linguistics/msc

www.um.edu.mt/registrar/prospective/admissions

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