Scholarships: Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT)

[Valia Kordoni]

Apologies for multiple postings
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The following consortium of Universities

1. Saarland University in Saarbruecken, Germany (coordinator)
2. Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy
3. University of Malta
4. University of Nancy 2, France
5. Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
6. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

are offering the European Masters Program in Language and Communication
Technologies (LCT; http://lct-master.org) under the auspices of the
Erasmus Mundus Program of the European Union
(http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/doc72_en.htm).

The Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies
is an international distributed Master of Science course. The
program involves studying one year at one of the Universities of the
consortium, and completing the second year with a stay in one of the
other partner Universities. After this, the student will obtain two
Master degrees with legal value in each of the countries of issue.

The Program in brief

Objectives: The Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Language and Communication
Technologies provides students with profound knowledge and
insight into the various disciplines that contribute to the methods of language
and communication technologies and it strengthens their
ability to work according to scientific methods. Moreover, the students acquire
practice-oriented knowledge by choosing appropriate
combinations of modules in Language Technology, Computational and Theoretical
Linguistics, and Computer Science. As such, the European
Masters Program in LCT is designed to meet the demands of industry and research
in the rapidly growing area of Language Technology. It
offers education and training opportunities for future generations of leaders
in research and innovation.

Duration: 2 years (120 ECTS credits)

Language of instruction: English

Summary of Study Programme: The course consists of compulsory core modules, as
well as elective advanced modules in Language Technology and
Computer Science, optionally complemented by a project, and completed by a
Masters dissertation.

APPLICATION DEADLINES:
Applications to the LCT and the Erasmus Mundus Scholarships scheme for the
academic years 2009-2011 can be made online at

http://lct-master.org/registration-2008/index.php?authorsInstructions=1

Study Requirements

Applicants must satisfy the following study requirements:

1. a Bachelor degree or equivalent in the area of (Computational) Linguistics,
Language Technology, Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics,
Artificial Intelligence, or other relevant disciplines

2. proficiency in English (for non-native speakers) must be certified by
one of the following (for more details, please check
http://lct-master.org/index.php?id=prerequisites):

a. TOEFL score of at least 250 (computer-based test) or 575 (paper-based test)
b. Cambridge Proficiency Exam -- pass
c. IELTS -- > 6.5
d. Possession of a first degree taught in English
e. Internet-based TOEFL score: 79

For detailed info on applications, please, check the web pages:

http://lct-master.org/index.php?id=deadlines

For further information please contact:

Dr. Valia Kordoni at kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de

Program coordinators:

Prof. Hans Uszkoreit (hansu at coli.uni-sb.de)
Dr. Valia Kordoni (kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de)

Further contacts can be found at: http://lct-master.org/index.php?id=local

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PD Dr. Valia Kordoni, Computational Linguistics-Saarland University, P.O. Box
15 11 50, 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany and LT-Lab DFKI GmbH
Tel: +49 681 302 4682
Fax: +49 681 302 4700
E-mail: kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~kordoni/
http://www.lct-master.org/