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Program in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Science<br class="">Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The Institute of Digital science, Management and Cognition <br class="">is opening a a new Masters Program in NLP - <br class="">Computer Sciences, Speech, Language and Knowledge Representation<br class=""><br class="">**************<br class=""> <a href="http://institut-sciences-digitales.fr/idmc-master-degree-in-natural-language-processing/" class="">http://institut-sciences-digitales.fr/idmc-master-degree-in-natural-language-processing/</a><br class="">**************<br class=""><br class="">So you want to be a specialist in Neural Networks, Logic, Speech <br class="">Processing, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Representation ... all <br class="">for Natural Language? Well, now's your chance!<br class=""><br class="">Natural Language Processing (NLP) lies at the crossroads of <br class="">linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence. This<br class="">Masters Program offers<br class="">a modern curriculum which combines the different <br class="">approaches, and covers both theoretical and applied perspectives.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">In each semester, the program includes a hands-on project. <br class="">It ends with a 6-month paid internship in a company or a research <br class="">lab. You can find the course description below.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">You can apply to directly enter at either the first year or second year level.<br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Language<br class="">-------------<br class="">All courses are taught in English<br class="">(except the "French for non-native Speakers" class).<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Fees<br class="">-------<br class="">The University of Lorraine is publicly funded and thus offers <br class="">tuition-free education for all students including students from <br class="">both inside and outside EU/EEA/EFTA countries. The only student <br class="">expenditures are a nominal semester fee of about 600 euros which <br class="">includes health insurance. Nancy’s high quality of life goes <br class="">hand-in-hand with a low cost of living.<br class=""><br class="">Why Nancy?<br class="">---------------<br class="">Nancy is a center of excellence for NLP. It can boast of:<br class=""><br class="">1/Two important research units:<br class="">- LORIA, the computer science research laboratory <a href="http://www.loria.fr/en/" class="">http://www.loria.fr/en/</a><br class="">- ATILF the linguistic research laboratory lab <a href="http://www.atilf.fr/" class="">http://www.atilf.fr/</a><br class=""><br class="">Both research units participate in many national and <br class="">international research projects. Their members are highly <br class="">visible in the international community and regularly publish <br class="">in the most prestigious conferences and journals of the field.<br class=""><br class="">2/ Two Erasmus Mundus Masters funded by the European Union : <br class="">- Erasmus Mundus Master Language and Communication <br class="">Technology (LCT) <a href="http://lct-master.org/" class="">http://lct-master.org/</a><br class="">- Erasmus Mundus Master EMLex.<br class=""> <a href="https://www.emlex.phil.fau.eu/" class="">https://www.emlex.phil.fau.eu/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Why NLP?<br class="">--------------<br class="">Natural Language Processing is a rapidly expanding field.<br class=""><br class="">With the proliferation of digital data, there is a massive need <br class="">for well-trained engineers and researchers able to exploit this <br class="">data for commercial (for example: e-commerce, recommendation <br class="">systems and translation) and socio-political (for example: <br class="">e-learning, opinion mining, and behavioural predictions) purposes.<br class=""><br class="">Start-ups, small firms with strong R&D profiles and large companies <br class="">(in France this includes Airbus, Thales, EDF, and Orange) are <br class="">looking for scientists and engineers who can contribute to the <br class="">development of systems capable of managing and exploiting textual <br class="">data.<br class=""><br class="">The GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) also recruit <br class="">intensively in both the NLP and the Speech processing domain.<br class=""><br class="">There is also a strong need for Ph.D. candidates in the field, as <br class="">is demonstrated by the many Ph.D. proposals in both the public and <br class="">the industrial domain.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Contacts<br class="">------------<br class="">Head of the Nancy NLP Master : Maxime Amblard<br class=""> <a href="mailto:maxime.amblard@univ-lorraine.fr" class="">maxime.amblard@univ-lorraine.fr</a><br class="">Secretary : Karine Weisse<br class=""> <a href="mailto:karine.weisse@univ-lorraine.fr" class="">karine.weisse@univ-lorraine.fr</a><br class=""><br class="">Location of the courses : <br class=""> École des Mines (Artem Campus, Tram stop "Blandan")<br class=""> <a href="http://www.alliance-artem.fr/" class="">http://www.alliance-artem.fr/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Application<br class="">---------------<br class="">The application file is available here:<br class=""><a href="https://ecandidat.univ-lorraine.fr/" class="">https://ecandidat.univ-lorraine.fr</a><br class=""><br class="">follow : <br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Institut des sciences du digital, management et cognition <br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Master<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- M1-Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) (NANCY) (FI)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> or<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- M2-Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL)<br class=""><br class="">More information: <br class=""><a href="http://institut-sciences-digitales.fr/application-process-nlp-master-degree/#application" class="">http://institut-sciences-digitales.fr/application-process-nlp-master-degree/#application</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Academic Year 2018-2019<br class="">-----------------------------------<br class="">From 3rd to 13th September 2018: Refresher courses in <br class="">mathematics (probability theory and statistics) and computer <br class="">science (algorithms and programming).<br class=""><br class="">M1: <br class=""> 1st semester from September 17th to January 11th<br class=""> 2nd semester from January 14th to June 6th<br class="">M2:<br class=""> 1st semester from September 17th to February 15th<br class=""> Internship from February to August<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">In brief<br class="">----------<br class="">• A program with strong national and international visibility<br class="">• Taught entirely in English<br class="">• A high quality research environment with two research centers <br class="">covering a wide range of disciplines (linguistics, computer <br class="">science, speech and language processing) and applications <br class="">(human-machine interfaces, speech processing, knowledge <br class="">extraction, statistical machine translation, etc.)<br class="">• Studies in a vibrant, human-size city<br class="">• Low cost study (tuition fees at around 600 euros per year, <br class="">including health insurance)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Courses Description<br class="">---------------------------<br class="">M1 Semester 1<br class="">---------------------------<br class="">PROBABILITIES, STATISTICS AND ALGORITHMS FOR AI<br class=""> • Elementary mathematical tools, statistics, algorithms<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>to define and solve artificial intelligence problem<br class=""> • Case study approach towards mastering both theoretical <br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and practical aspects of a topic<br class=""><br class="">DESIGN AND ACQUISITION OF CORPORA<br class=""> • Written corpora<br class=""> • Speech corpora<br class=""><br class="">SOFTWARE ENGINEERING<br class=""> • Collecting, analysing and formalizing customers' needs<br class=""> • Software design and development<br class=""> • Functional analysis and specifications<br class=""> • Project management<br class=""><br class="">LINGUISTICS FOR NLP (1)<br class=""> • Methods for Natural Language Processing<br class=""> • Phonology<br class=""> • Morphology<br class=""><br class="">PROJECT AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE<br class=""> • Hands-on project<br class=""> • Foreign language (French)<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------<br class="">M1 Semester 2<br class="">---------------------------<br class=""><br class="">MACHINE LEARNING AND SEMANTIC WEB <br class=""> • Machine learning theory<br class=""> • Data mining<br class=""> • Knowledge extraction<br class=""><br class="">FORMAL TOOLS<br class=""> • Logic<br class=""> • Formal languages<br class=""> • Calculability and complexity<br class=""><br class="">DATA PROCESSING<br class=""> • Storage and retrieval<br class=""> • Data analysis<br class=""><br class="">LINGUISTICS FOR NLP (2)<br class=""> • Lexicology : lexical units and phraseology<br class=""> • Syntax<br class=""> • Semantics<br class=""><br class="">PROJECT AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE<br class=""> • Hands-on project<br class=""> • Scientific communication<br class=""> • Foreign Language (French)<br class="">---------------------------<br class="">M2 Semester 1<br class="">---------------------------<br class="">DEEP LEARNING AND DATA MINING<br class=""> • Neural Networks, Deep Neural Networks<br class=""> • Data mining (structured data and text)<br class=""> • Collaborative filtering<br class=""><br class="">TEXT AND SPEECH PROCESSING<br class=""> • Processing Textual Data<br class=""> • Speech processing<br class=""> • Terminology and ontology<br class=""><br class="">NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND DISCOURSES<br class=""> • Application to text<br class=""> • Computational semantics<br class=""> • Discourse and Dialog modeling<br class=""><br class="">LEXICONS AND GRAMMARS FOR NLP<br class=""> • Diachronic and synchronic lexicology<br class=""> • Lexical resources<br class=""> • Syntactic framework<br class=""><br class="">PROJECTS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE<br class=""> • Software project<br class=""> • Law and ethics<br class=""> • Research methods<br class=""> • Professional integration<br class=""> • Foreign language courses (French)<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------<br class="">M2 Semester 2<br class="">---------------------------<br class="">Paid internship (company or research lab)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>