Human Language Technology and Interfaces

Human Language Technologies (HLT) allow us to interact with various automatic services through our voice; for instance in booking a trip, in automatically translating an information request or a document and especially, in organizing an enormous amount of written and spoken information that we can access through the World Wide Web.  

The great progress achieved in HLT areas, such as the automatic extraction of information and the automatic creation of summaries, is opening the way for many interesting applications.

This Master aims at passing on basic HLT competences  and abilities for the development of advanced  man-computer interfaces. The courses are held by international experts who come from universities, research centres and leader companies in the area. Students have the chance to work on projects in laboratories or in companies thus, making the knowledge acquired during the Master concrete.

Didactics
The Master is organised in three different periods:

• A period for traditional lessons on the theories and techniques related to Language technologies;
• A period in which students will carry out an internship in a company or in the Master’s labs;
• The writing and discussion of an essay related to the internship.
 

Attendance
In order to complete the Master, students must gain 65 credits, divided as follows:

• 40 credits related to theoretical lessons and related to advanced courses on the technologies and applications connected to Language technologies
• 20 credits gained during laboratory activities;
• 5 credits gained after passing the final examination.
 
Addressees and admitttance requirements
Master degree level in computer science, electrical engineering, computational linguistics, cognitive science and related disciplines (e.g. linguistics, psychology, philosophy).

Students form other disciplines but with a solid mathematical and/or computational background will also be considered.

The official language is English. Students will need to demonstrate adequate competence in the language.

 
Admission criteria
In order to be admitted to the Master, candidates must pass the selection.

The application form must be filled in online, from the Master’s website.

Deadlines, fees and scholarships
Deadline to hand in application form: May 03, 2010 (non EU students); May 31, 2010 ( EU students). The application form must be sent according to the modalities explained in the master website.  The application must be submitted according to the conditions described in the Master’s website: http://disi.unitn.it/edu/hlti/home.xml.

The enrolment fees amount to 2.500 Euros and deserving students will receive a scholarship.