International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology
European Higher Education Erasmus Mundus Program
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Europe | Deadline : Jan 24, 2009
The main objective of this Masters Course is the production of bilingual or trilingual specialists in computational linguistics and its application.
Four universities are involved in the Masters consortium. The student chooses to go to two or three universities of the consortium and studies for one year in one of the universities and for the other year in one or two of the three other universities (if the student chooses to go to 2 universities in the same year, he/she will spend one semester in each of these). The disciplines involved are linguistics, computer science, mathematics and either two or three languages. The study programme covers taught subjects and a research project dissertation in the domain. The taught subjects are organised so that each student obtains the same fundamental knowledge and can obtain more specialised material according to the student's preference for doing either more linguistics or more computing and mathematics. The lectures are based on fundamentals but are also in connection with the most recent research and developments in the domain. To complete the course, each student are required to obtain 120 ECTS points: 60 ECTS in taught subjects and 60 ECTS through the research project dissertation. Dissertation projects are jointly supervised by members of the teaching staff who are active in research and who also supervise PhD dissertations as well as visiting scholars - all partners of the consortium are associated with university research laboratories. Moreover, the opportunity exists for interested students within the programme to do a non-assessed placement in a company or in a research center.
Third-country applicants are entitled to apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarships, which covers both tuition fees and travel and subsistance during their studies. Each University provides housing facilities and tutorials, and induction weeks for the newcomers. A health and social security insurance scheme is proposed to the third-country students as is proposed to all foreign students.
For the academic year 2009-2010, the IM in NLP&HLT Masters programme will have 17 scholarships for third-country students in the general category and 3 scholarships in the special category of the "Western Balkans and Turkey Window" for students from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99, as well as from the candidate country: Turkey.
Applicants wishing to apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship should indicate so in the application form. The total sum of each scholarship is 21000 Euros per year. An Erasmus Mundus scholarship covers both tuition fees and living expenses.
IMPORTANT DATES
For applicants requesting a scholarship from the Consortium (third-country applicants only), the deadline for submitting applications is 24th of January 2009.
For applicants who do not request a scholarship from the Consortium, the deadline for submitting applications is 1st of June 2009.